Oh, it was crap. Pure and simple.

Rating: 5/10 (13 May 2009)

You might say that as an ardent hater of Lost I may be biased, but actually I didn't heed my own advice and I read some reviews about the movie. They were all cautiously favourable so that mellowed down my low expectations of the movie. I mean J.J.Abrams and young ST TOS crew? Come on! But I bought it and I even wen to the cinema to see it. Don't get me started on that!
So, where there good parts in it? Of course there were. That's what makes it so annoying. With casting like Zachary Quinto, who secretly I believe could make a very good actor if given half a decent role, Karl Urban, even Eric Bana. I have no idea what Ben Cross and Winona Ryder did in this film, but they also added some value to it. Funny enough, the only player that felt Star Trekish was Bruce Greenwood who I can easily imagine on par with Patrick Stewart in a true Master and Commander meets Star Trek film (which we all know it is what the next movie should be about).
Alas, the bad parts overwhelm the good ones. The Star Trek science was always dodgy, especially the one in the original series, but this one was neither true to the series nor close to anything we learn in school about science. I am talking about basic physics here, not something complicated like college! The action scenes were decent, but the style of always moving with the projectile and changing angles in a complete cacophony of loud and improbable sounds made them almost unbearable. The script? It had so many holes in it you just couldn't see any material left. The characters are completely different from the original crew. Almost nothing is left from Gene Roddenberry's legacy.
Bottom line: no, it's not as bad as Andromeda, but it's heading there. A film made only for memory deficient teenagers with cultural Attention Deficit Disorder. I could go on and on and on. As I said I really liked the performances of Bruce Greenwood and Eric Bana. You barely recognised the man. But other than that, nothing is worth the destruction of a mythos almost half a century old.