Boldly Retreating Where We've Been Before

Rating: 7/10 (21 August 2013)

As a fan of the old 80's Star Trek movies, the new "Into Darkness" picture is an impressively huge - if sometimes exhausting and confusing - summer action picture that trades most of the simplicity of the old films for big budget FX and massive set pieces.
With the film's quasi-reverential tone and this new series' more-than- willingness to raid the canon that came before, it might be time for director J.J. Abrams' version of the warhorse Trek series to explore new story lines and new galaxies and boldly go where others haven't gone, rather than relying on the tried-and-true that came before.
All the money's up on the screen and it IS entertaining, but a very soft 7/10.