A reasonable effort

Rating: 8/10 (6 June 2012)

I'll be honest, before watching this movie I was very sceptical that they'd actually pull it off. To my surprise, I did actually enjoy the movie, it was action-packed right till the end.
Chris Pine did exceptionally well as Kirk, showing the arrogance and ego that William Shatner once did, and rebelling against protocol as always. Quinto performed reasonably well as Spock, but was overshadowed by the sheer greatness of Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock Prime. Nimoy just ghosted back into the role, and had not forgotten a single thing, he played Spock very well, just like he has always done. I also liked the casting of Zoe Saldana as Uhura, who became involved in a very surprising relationship with another main character.
The music from the original series was not added till the very end, which was a good decision, as we would've thought it'd be like the original series if they'd put it at the beginning, which it certainly wasn't: the uniforms were different and the ships were far more high-tech than the ones seen in the past TV series'. I'd like to see more of this, and the film can be enjoyable for old fans, new fans, and non-fans alike; the old fans can still get into it because it is set in an alternate reality, the new fans are new fans because of it, and non-fans would enjoy the action that the film shows.