Excellent!

Rating: 10/10 (22 September 2013)

For the Star Trek purists out there Star Trek Into Darkness must have been a slap in the face. I call it a masterful rework of a classic in which one of the evilest characters to come out of the Star Trek universe, ever, was once again matched up against the Enterprise crew and her captain. J.J. Abrams outdid his work in the first movie of this new series when he reworked the script of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to create Star Trek Into Darkness.
As this is a movie that came out this year I will not tell you how it ended. But, what I will tell you is that if you watched The Wrath of Khan and then you watch Into Darkness, you will either be pleasantly surprised at some of the reversals in what happens to some of the characters, or you will be angered beyond compare. I doubt there is any in between.
What I will do is tell you about three scenes from the beginning of the movie up to about the half way point. I liked that the same cast from the first movie was back with some additions that were pretty good as well as visually appealing, I'll explain that later.
The first scene I liked was when Dr. "Bones" McCoy (Karl Urban) and Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) are supposed to be observing a primitive alien species. Unfortunately, a volcano threatens to destroy the planet and it is decided to "freeze" the lava before it can do it's job. In the process of stopping the volcano Spock (Zachary Quinto) is trapped inside the volcano. After escaping the indigenous peoples of the planet Kirk violates the Prime Directive by directly affecting the development of the civilization when he reveals his ship to them. The primitive aliens abandon their religion and begin to worship the Enterprise. This is pretty funny. Spock says the line "The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few." This line was said by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Wrath of Khan, and Leonard Nimoy said it again in The Transformers Dark of the Moon as Sentinel Prime.
Another scene I liked was when Spock mind-melded with Admiral Pike (Bruce Greenwood) as Pike lay dying. Pike had been wounded by John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), who turned out to be Khan. Later it is revealed that when Spock did his mind-meld with Spock he felt fear, anger, confusion, loneliness and that he had felt these emotions before when Vulcan was destroyed. He vowed never to feel these emotions again which is why he couldn't comprehend why Nyoto Uhura (Zoe Saldana) was upset with him for taking the risk he did to stop the volcano.
Another scene I liked is when McCoy and Dr. Carol Marcus (Eve Alice) attempt to see what is so special about the photon torpedoes they were given to launch at Khan to destroy him. I won't tell what was so special, just know that this was a nice twist. At the same time, I think it was amazing what Kirk sent Scotty (Simon Pegg) to investigate. Again I won't give away what he found.
Eve Alice is what I meant by visually pleasing. She was the lead actress in one of my favorite comedy movies, She's Out Of My League. Very funny. She is very attractive and in my opinion an underrated actress because of her attractiveness.
Again J.J. Abrams brings amazing graphics and rewrites a script to make a masterful epic movie.
I give Star Trek Into Darkness 10 stars out of 10 stars.