Best of summer so far

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2009)

JJ Abrams does what I never would have expected him to do, make a Star Trek that was accessible to everybody, even those who never really thought much of it (namely me for one). This is an eye-popping, heart-racing thriller of a movie with fantastic special effects, make-up, and exhilarating action sequences. It has a fantastic supporting cast including Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Simon Pegg, and Eric Bana, being perfectly twisted as the main Romulan villain Nero. Leonard Nimoy also appears in a cameo that should have fans drooling. But what I loved were the two central performances coming from Chris Pine, as the cocky, restless, and wild James T. Kirk, and Zachary Quinto as Spock, torn between logic and emotion, Quinto finds the humanity. The power struggle between the two is one of the highlights of the movie. I can only hope that Abram's "Star Trek" will live long and prosper.