As good as the 1st movie

Rating: 9/10 (17 May 2013)

OK lets get this straight.This is a good movie.I found a few flaws but aside those its a damn good movie.The story is good.Its J.J. Abrams's version of wrath of Khan.Yup boys and girls.But its a good one.The same good solid performances from the cast from the previous installment are here.Of course we see more of Kirk and Spock,maybe a tad more but thats my view.Good effects good directing.Its a classic.But i don't give this a 10 because 1.Too many damn coincidences for the plot to roll.I mean Scotty just happens to have a shuttle available and goes to find the secret starship and nobody notices????Khans blood revives Kirk.What if Bones didn't notice the fungus.And they buried Kirk.Or what if Scotty was late by a second during the jump ship sequence.Tchekhov holds Kirk which in turn holds Scotty in a cliffhanger(literally) and his arm doesn't come of???A 80 kgr guy holds 200 kgr with one hand?If it was Arnold on that scaffold i would buy it but Tchekhov????Spock jumps of a moving carthing and lands easily with no scratch on another one in a scene reminiscent of SW episode 2 and continues to fight Khaan?Khaan who single handedly wiped out a company of Klingons????!!!!And so on.Come ON guys!!!I mean i know this is a movie and in movies impossible things happen but,dude this is a J.J. Abrams movie not a Uwe Boll one(shivers up and down my spine).The script should have been dusted a little more carefully in my opinion. 2.I didn't enjoy Klingons a lot.Maybe because it was for a few minutes.But i remember each time a bird of prey appeared out of nowhere.You knew things were about to get nasty..Perhaps in this one it was due to a lack of a good music score to enhance the tension of the moment.Or that we get a glimpse of Klingons and not a very good one i might add. But all these are chips in the armor.I enjoyed the movie and i'm waiting for more installments.And maybe just maybe all these small flaws were enforced by someone else than Abrams?Studio execs maybe?Any way.Go see it.Its a good sci fi movie.