"Star Trek" guilty of not enchanting me...........Review no 1379..........

Rating: 6/10 (17 February 2012)

It's noisy,it's long,it's flashy,it's for the computer game generation who need their whizz - bang quotient to stop their hands shaking.The body count is way above all the other Star Trek films put together,the special effects are stunning,the in - jokes are just on the right side of smug,but.................for me the film lacks heart - sentiment if you want to put it another way. Back in the day of Mr Roddenberry,the series had heart.Yes it was clunky,hokey and sometimes a bit portentous,but it was never mechanical. The 2009 version has no warmth,no characters even remotely vulnerable. Kirk and co have been turned into standard Hollywood superheroes with only the faintest resemblance to real human beings. Yes it's clever - clever;it might even be post -modern ironic (if I knew what that actually meant)but it's superficial gloss should not to be allowed to disguise it's shortcomings. You can ironically or otherwise refer to as many other films as you want,but you can still end up with something resembling a Steven Seagal movie with a billion dollar budget - and the new "Star Trek does just that .