Boldly going forward, but not by much.

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 2009)

The review for Star trek have been very good, so I went into the film with high hopes. Unfortunately I must say that I was disappointed and thought the film was no better than average.
The film has lots of action and does try and a interesting plot idea but over all it but the script is a bit ham fisted, clumsy and pretty predictable. Most of the acting is good and none of the characters is unlikeable. The two characters that shine for me are Bruce Greenwood who plays Captain Pike extremely well and Zoe Saldana who is great a Uhura. Zachary Quinto is quite good as Spock and Chris Pine is fine as Kirk though he seems to lack the personality of William Shatner. The one annoying character for me is Simon Pegg as Scotty, he just is so over the top that it gets annoying and his character seems to be being played for laughs. I liked Eric Banner as the bad guy Nero, he doesn't come over as the normal bad guy. He under plays the character and comes over as just a average guy but with a extremely powerful weapon.
I cannot say I am a fan of the JJ Abrams direction, he uses a lot of hand held jerky camera work which is annoying at time. I also got very annoyed with the action scenes, especially the space battles. There is just to much going and crowded. This isn't helped by the fast editing and the cinematography which had lots of close ups just was frustrating. I must admit that the special effects were of a very high quality which shows that by giving a film enough time to get certain things right, it can improve the film greatly.
I have to say one of the weakest elements of the film is the music, the score is weak especially when compared some of the great Star Trek films scores. It completely fails to add to the film and is a huge let down. I thought the set design was OK I got annoyed by a couple of things and the bridge of the Enterprise looked like it had been designed by Macintosh. Which brings me to another really annoy and rather silly thing thing in the film. Product placement just doesn't work well in far future science fiction films and looks completely out of place in a Star Trek film. I just found it irritating and completely out of place.
I have done a lot of moaning about the film and there is a lot of negative things to say about the film but the film is not terrible. I found it to be generally harmless and some times funny but with a lot of annoying little bits which reduced what I thought could have been a great film. I am glad Star Trek is back and hopefully the sequels will be really good. If you want to see a average Trek film go and see this film, if you want to see a great Trek film go and Watch The Wrath of Khan.