Mildly entertaining but hollow experience

Rating: 1/10 (8 June 2013)

I won't get big into spoilers here. This movie is not a good piece of cinematography. The emotional connections don't develop long enough to be believable, the lens-flare effects hurt in the eyes, the dialog is rusty and mostly unfunny, and that this is a bad remake of "Wrath of Khan" is no real spoiler.
There are a lot of questions which pop into ones mind: Why is Kronos, the home world of the Klingon race and HQ of the Klingon Empire totally unprotected? There is not even ONE ship in orbit around the planet. In 2259 there is a whole fleet of D7 cruisers and bird of preys to protect the heart of the empire. The second an enemy ship warps into the system, they would have at least 50 ships on their a**** and would not survive 2 minutes in orbit.
There are a lot of references to the old movie, and every one fails miserably. In the old movies, which have their own problems of course, nearly all of these moments have a purpose, started and spun along a decent time to make sense and be appropriate and even moving. But in this movie they are forced, don't mean anything, don't touch emotionally in the slightest and most of them don't even fit into the scene. They are there for fan service, thats all. Or JJ Abrams & Co are just mocking the old movies and treat the franchise with the disrespect they may think, it deserves. They already said, that they don't care for Star Trek. That explains this awful reboot.
The story is short, nonsensical and the people who are in it could have been taken from some military drilling camp in the US army. They swear, they give a s*** about rules, they betray the institution they are working for etc.
This is mindless cgi-cinema, shot to near to the camera, cut in pieces and shown in very short bursts of blinking pictures that give you a headache. Most of the time you can't even see what's really happening, because the snippets are to short to identify anything. The space battles are just short blinking bursts of explosions and phaser fire.
To be honest, i don't care much for this movie. It was uninspired, even boring from time to time, told an unconvincing and predictable story that made little sense, as well as the plot holes which are bigger than the holes the enemy shot into the Enterprise.
My recommendation: Save your 20 bucks and wait for the DVD release so you can rent it.