Liked Chris Pine, hated the nonsensical script

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2011)

First off, I thought Chris Pine did a great job as Kirk. He seemed to be channeling Shatner's Kirk (in a good way) with a really visceral physicality. That being said...as a reboot this destroys virtually the entire back-history of the series (except for Enterprise which predates it). I know this is an ALTERNATE history, but this isn't an adequate excuse for the mush the critics seem to love. I found the camera work impossible to follow and extremely jarring. The plot made absolutely no sense. OK the Romulans are P****d off at Spock for not being able to save their planet, but instead of getting hold of the time travel device to SAVE their world they go off on a revenge binge...come on. How stupid are these people? Shouldn't they now be able to change history and PREVENT the disaster in the first place? The whole Spock and Kirk in conflict just did not ring true. Spock loses his temper and orders Kirk thrown off the ship? Just weird. Can you imagine this happening in a military command today? Thrown in the brig yes, but OFF THE SHIP??? NUTS. While I don't mind stretching the science aspect once in a while to make the plot work, transporting across interstellar distances was impossible in the Star Trek universe 100 years later. So Scotty can on the fly just pop them into the Enterprise engine room? I'm a big Simon Pegg fan, and I liked him as Scotty, but the script he was given just didn't work for the character. I can say the same for all the other characters. They just did not come alive for me the way they did in the original series. McCoy already had his quirks, all the catchphrases were duly said, but it was rather empty. My final and biggest complaint is how can you wipe out the Vulcans? One of the most popular races in the ST universe. I might have been able to forgive this reboot if they had simply not done this one thing. The writers had to have one REALLY BIG difference between this and the original, so they decide to blow up Vulcan...DUMB. I have no intention of bothering with any more movies in this rebooted series. I'm sure they will make money with the new fans who never watched the original, but I'm willing to bet they lost a bunch of us TOS fans...not that the producers care I'm sure.