Great reboot of the Star Trek Universe.

Rating: 8/10 (25 September 2009)

My father usually described Star Trek very simply: "When the camera shakes stuff happens". I'm guessing even he will stand in awe upon this action-oriented Star Trek movie.
While I'm by no means a trekkie I still consider myself somewhat more educated in the Star Trek trivia than your average TV-viewer.
So for me it was kind of hard watching the first half of the movie seeing some rather large plot events went with current lore and status of the Star Trek universe. I was under the impression that this actually was a prequel.
However, as it turned out, this is a reboot. And that's very fortunate because it's a great one at that.
Chris Pine is a great James T. Kirk. He got the smug look and the over-the-top confidence to match. He reminds me a bit more of the early work of Shatner during the first series.
Howver, the real star here, I would dare say is Zachary Quinto who nails Spock. When he first appeared on screen I wondered what kind of plastic surgery Leonard Nimoy went through only to realize that it's really not him. This is just Spock.
What's even greater is that Quinto not only portrays the character Spock but develops him further. He really turns Spock into his own, not only striving to "play him like Nimoy".
Other names involved Eric Bana, Chris Hemsworth, Karl Urban and John Cho really delivers. Especially the otherwise over-the-top humoristic John Cho gives us a slightly more advanced Sulu. Again, more action-oriented, but never-the-less Sulu.
In all this new, rebooted, crew really delivers and honor the predecessors. The only one that I'm still uncertain about is Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov. However something tells me he will grow into character.
I expect great things of the Star Trek reboot. The cast is young and the action scenes are great. There's plenty of time to develop this into a new batch of series.
Hopefully we'll get to see more of J.J Abrams and his new Star Trek.