Great Kirk and Spock! Other things could be better...

Rating: 5/10 (11 December 2009)

The actors who played the roles of Kirk and Spock do deliver; they make you feel you're watching the originals once again. This is no small feat. However...
A number of things in the plot are meaningless. Young Kirk doesn't care for his own life or any form of authority, yet he enters Star Fleet Academy quite easily. He goes from nobody to captain in a few years. Spock is a poor victim, losing the command of Enterprise due to a plot set by his best friend Kirk and masterminded by... himself!
Some unnecessary, hard-to-believe skydiving, as if no other advanced, more effective and safe way were available five centuries ahead in the future to get the job done. Each of the skydivers using shinny, color matching suit and helmet, one color for each guy. Blah!...
Eric Bana is Eric Bana; he will never pass as a disgruntled Romulan captain. This is not his fault; he is just one of those guys whose fame and outstanding performance make it hard for the viewer to forget who he is and accept him as a part of the Star Trek lore.
The Romulan engineer who designed Bana's ship must be a lunatic, as notwithstanding being capable of creating a time traveling starship, its interior is full of deadly dangerous, absolutely nonsensical pitfalls.
And what happened with that beloved Trekkie planet called Vulcan??!! It seems it was destroyed in a time before the original series! I still don't know. I hate time loops.
Finally, the Enterprise... In sharp contrast with the beautifully rendered, all-glass bridge, it doesn't take much to realize that the engine room is just an old, ordinary, 20th century industrial plant used as a studio set, without any preparation whatsoever except for some bad C.G. to create a useless tube full of liquid. My guess is the budget had already been spent when the engine room's shootings began.
Bottom line, I admired Chris Pine's and Zachary Quinto's great performances, and those of other very good actors, but the things aforementioned caused some distractions that prevented me to fully enjoy the movie.