I do not know. Right now, I am failing.

Rating: 5/10 (18 February 2014)

Star Trek into Darkness, it is slightly odd title for a star trek movie. Still when the title was announced like so many others I was excited, finally a star trek movie that had done the hard part of reintroducing the characters to a new audience in the first movie could now seriously go where no one has gone before.
When the trailers come out I was even more excited, but as soon as I got in the cinema to watch it, and as the film progressed I realised this wasn't the Star Trek into Darkness I wanted to see. Not being too critical of the movie I can honestly say that the action sequences are some of the best, and the cast is perfect they all build upon the roles of the previous film and make the film more enjoyable.
However my biggest issue is the script. By now you probably know the big secret that Khan is back, this isn't a bad thing by any means and I can see why they done it but it's annoying when the story was building up to something possibly new. I remember watching it for a second time and one of my friends saying when Scotty was going to the co-ordinates and the shuttle was going over the space station "no way that have the borg in this?!" I'll be honest my friend is very much into the borg but thinking about it wouldn't that have been a much better idea if John Harrison (like the original series version) did actually go where no man has gone before and his reason for destroying starfleet headquarters was actually to prevent them ever finding the borg. However Kirk and co awaken them from a sleep which somehow can link it back to the motion picture through V'ger.
Now that would be a much fresher approach to the characters and the interactions, rather than the story that we got which tried to force the film to be a new Star Trek II Wrath of Khan but with certain situations reversed. This wasn't anything new or original to the franchise and for me as a star trek fan it upsets me that this is the second time that they have done this (the first being with Nemesis...look it up its Star Trek II but with the next generation cast).
The idea of them recycling the same story over and over again because it's the most popular doesn't make it any better. If anything it makes me appreciate Star Trek II more but also hate it more, which is sad. So as you can tell my opinion is that this film is good from an action point of view and the performances are brilliant from all the cast, but the script is horrible.
For me as a fan I will still be waiting for Star Trek into Darkness with a franchise that from the last film had so many possibilities it is disappointing that this film was made. If J.J wanted to take something from Star Trek II he should have taken the Genesis device...Vulcan was destroyed in the last movie, it would make sense to have that here. But introduce a new villain and expand the world, move the story forward. It annoyed me with the last movie that they played safe and Kirk and Co didn't go through the black hole, this one annoyed me because its just a remake but its trying to cover up the fact its a remake which is frustrating. I'm not a hater of J,J I think hes fantastic (just look at my Mission Impossible III review) but I do feel he didn't take enough risks with this film and wasted the opportunity he had to expand the world and introduce new and more original ideas.