Pale imitation

Rating: Null/10 (13 June 2011)

I waited for months before venturing to write a review of this film. This is a Star Trek reboot for an addled and ADHD-suffering modern generation. There is precious-little substance to this film at all apart from the roller coaster ride of effects and (poor) music.
Oh the actors did a good enough job...that wasn't the worry. It was the nonsensical and silly script that wrecked it for me. The too-convenient twists and plain hokum plot devices like "red matter"...red matter???
People are jumping up and down and writing that JJ has revived a "dead" franchise. Better that it stayed dead than get the JJ "LOST/FRINGE" treatment. Gene Roddenberry's ashes would be glowing in anger if he could see this trite nonsense.