Durivative, Predictable, and Somewhat Boring

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2019)

18 May 2013. Whereas this movie version of the "iconic" Star Trek has received mostly positive reviews and insistence that its twists are not to be revealed, perhaps for that reason that this movie depends on such "surprises" to make this movie watchable, at least to survive through a first showing. The movie is derivative with little originality in its contents or storyline, and interestingly it is the very nature of the "secretive" plot that only reveals how repetitive, predictable, that his movie is essentially a rehash of old plot lines and cliques in its attempt to forge through on its special effects and what eventually becomes nauseating sound bites.
The movie begins with the now to be expected old traditional, James Bond movie sequence with its loads of action thrills that are intended to spellbind. The rest of the movie uses the audience psychological sales marketing plot points that began primarily with Jaws (1975) that inserted the requisite emotional and ethical conflict scene, the relational confrontation scene, the rebellion scene and the take pity scene, regret scene, and of course loads of action scenes that are needed to supposedly enhance the 3-D experience which only added mildly to the visceral experience and actually begins to feel like paint by the numbers movie with some of the major technical and logical aspects of both technology and human nature being conveniently ignore for the sake of coming up with a plot line that's already premade in advance.
With the requisite spoiler alert warning in place here, the supposedly reintroduction of an old new nemesis from one of the original Star Trek movies seems rather lame and even that movie while deemed one of the best of the Star Trek movies, neither of them captured the richly substantive social, political, and sometimes deeply relational emotive depth that many of the original television series episodes captured back in the nineteen sixties. This supposedly sci-fi movie continues the trends toward small snippets of supposedly lofty important cerebral experiences that are only included for show and symbolic tokenism, leaving the hard-core sci-fi elements behind that made science fiction so forward and innovative in its raw daring fashion in the nineteen fifties, sixties, and seventies. Instead Star Trek Into Darkness in a way as its name suggests is a continuing move into the darkness of blind conformist, mindless popular action thrillers incorporating science fiction elements replacing quality scriptwriting that had a depth of heart, soul, and the former richness of science fiction that went where no man has gone before.