Overall a fine effort but...

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2009)

I got back from midnight screening in Aus and have to say both myself and my wife enjoyed the film. She is more a trekky than i but we both agreed on points that we disliked. Firstly the casting of Simon Pegg as Scott - its not that he does a bad job or anything it's just that he's, well, Shaun of the Dead... After going so well with casting unknowns for all the other major parts (a major coup as they are all excellent and quickly become believable as their counterparts) casting Simon kind of destroyed the illusion. I am well over shaky, close up, quick edit action scenes. It plain hurts to watch them espec on the imax screen we were at. Maybe on smaller screens it won't grate so much. Any movie with time travel involved is always on shaky ground. It asks a lot and makes plot lines hard to comprehend on occasions. Oh and "Red Matter" - seriously.. If your going to have a black hole creating liquid - give it a mofo scary name. Nexomortium or something or other.. Red Matter pah!
But i do recommend the film to all fans of the original series - you will see just how well the unknowns have digested the source material and created believable younger versions of Spock, Bones, Kirk.. but sadly not Scotty