On the whole I liked it but I had an issue with casting.

Rating: 6/10 (5 January 2011)

I basically enjoyed watching this movie. True there were inconsistencies and things that made no sense at all once a person started taking it apart and asking a lot of why and how questions but although I was prepared to not like this film at all I found myself enjoying it - it was a fast and furious romp through an alternative reality with young versions of familiar characters as well as my favourite character from the original Star Trek - Nimoy as Spock and I must say I really liked the new young Spock too. The role of Spock is a huge role to try to fill and he managed it very well.
Like many others I found the incessant flashing and lens flare to be distracting and intrusive and at times downright uncomfortable - I found myself looking away or closing my eyes - the interior Enterprise sets were also very cold and sterile, not something people would find comfortable to live and work in for months and years at a time - harsh best describes the colours and the lighting not only for viewers but also for the performers and the characters they portray.
My major complaint was in casting - 'Asian Americans' are not interchangeable. To cast a Korean as a Japanese character just doesn't work - Koreans don't look Japanese and Japanese don't look Chinese. Surely there are enough Japanese-American actors that at least they could have cast someone from the same race as his character's name Sulu. This in no way is a criticism of Cho's performance. He did it very well. The problem was he didn't look Japanese - there was this mismatch between his name and his face and I just could not get completely past it even with repeated viewings of the DVD.
There are many little things that with subsequent viewings became mostly minor issues for me but on the whole the movie stood up to my basic criteria - was I entertained? And my answer to that question was and still is Yes.