Not only the worst "Star Trek" film but a dreadful one in its own right

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 2014)

This film is just awful. The hilariously deep voiced Benedict Cumberbatch is dreadful as Khan, delivering an embarrassingly camp performance. Does he have to open his mouth almost all the way whenever he delivers a line? It was not a good idea to bring him back in the first place but it could have been done well with good writing and a good actor who was right for the part, neither of which was in evidence here. The scene in which Carol Marcus strips down to her underwear is shameless, pointless and exploitative. It's not 1966 anymore. At least when they brought the Orion slave girls back in "Enterprise", they attempted to give them more depth by revealing that the men were really the slaves and the women were the slavemasters.
The whole point of creating a new timeline was supposed to be that they create new stories but this is just a badly characterised, badly written, generally badly acted and often cringeworthy rehash of "Space Seed" and "The Wrath of Khan" (for the third film in the row in the latter case...) which still manages not to feel like "Star Trek". Leonard Nimoy's cameo in the film is the one and only thing that I loved about the film. Other than him, Chris Pine, Karl Urban and Bruce Greenwood were the only actors who impressed me.
Does Spock really have to have an emotional outburst in every film? Even Worf was less emotional than him most of the time. In the previous film, at least he had a good reason for it. A main part of the problem with this film is that Kirk and Spock don't particularly like each other and don't even know each other that well in stark contrast to the proper versions, meaning that some of the ripped off parts of "The Wrath of Khan" barely even make sense in the context of the film. In any event, you don't want to remind people of better films when they're watching your bad one.
This is not only the worst "Star Trek" film but the worst film that I've seen all year. I suppose that makes me one of what Roberto Orci called the "shitty fans". You know, the ones whom Simon Pegg told to "fuck off" for criticising the film. I'm tempted to not even watch the next one unless William Shatner and/or Leonard Nimoy are in it.