Star Wars Episode VII: Khan Air

Rating: 6/10 (17 May 2013)

Pop quiz hotshot, what do you do when threatened by a genetically engineered madman who is nearly indestructible and who will stop at nothing to rescue his people?
You call Spock and get the answer.
This isn't anything other than Die Hard in space with a never ending series of camera whip pans and lens flare. J.J. Abrahms is totally bored with this stuff. It doesn't matter that he's not a Star Trek fan, but he doesn't give two sh**s for a single character in the movie.
You don't have to be a Wrath of Khan fan to see what is wrong here. In that movie the plot is simple. Kirk was revealed in the opening simulation to take short cuts, but in the end, his best friend - and later his son - paid the price for his recklessness. Kirk had to learn
there were no easy ways out. Only hard truths and impossible sacrifices. There was a justice to the arc of Kirk. Into Darkness is just a Kanye West style sample remix. It's boomy, but ain't music. Now when anybody dies in the Star Trek sequels, there's no excuse for them stealing more blood from all those torpedo tube people to keep them alive.
Thank you, writers of Transformers, Damon Lindelof and that short guy who creates all those TV shows that go nowhere.