Cowboy like movie, with no soul

Rating: 4/10 (10 May 2009)

When Eugene Roddenberry got the chance to redo StarTrek, he was able to do it right. To do it properly. TNG underlined the best of the Trek universe: the moral issues, the optimistic view of mankind, a positive future in which money wouldn't exist. All of that was present in the original series, but it also had a lot of "cowboy" feeling.
This movie takes out everything I liked about Star Trek. The future is now irrelevant, unspecific. A future in which there would be uneducated farmers which ask Budweisser beers and use Nokia phones. Product placement is very out of place in the 24th century.
I expected plot twists, I've read about them. Instead, the movie is very straight forward, no corners. There's even a fight resembling very much that classical StarWars like setting.
The good point are the characters. All of them are very good, they are very recognizable (of course, they are a couple of years younger than the ones we know).
However, other than that this movie is about violence, sexy scenes, explosions. No moral dilemmas, no sense of marvel towards the emptiness of space. The star-trek soul is LOST in this movie.