Mediocre I'm afraid

Rating: 5/10 (3 January 2014)

I really enjoyed the first Star Trek re-make, but I'm afraid Into Darkness didn't do it for me. It felt like just more of the same. In some senses, that's OK. The characters were played well and were completely believable as younger versions of the original Star Trek cast. And the sets and special effects were top notch. That's great.
But there's so much in this movie which is second rate. The storyline is insufferably dull and predictable. The bad guy, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, isn't half as sinister as he should be. The 'love interest', if there is a love interest, in Alice Eve, barely features. And the last minute 'save the world' climax is a parody of a decent disaster movie. All in all there's too much wrong with Into Darkness and I'm afraid it ends up being rather mediocre.