Don't understand the Negative Reviews - solid Trek movie better than most.

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2013)

I swore after seeing Thor in 3D that I would never go to another 3D movie. 3D was the only option for ST Into Darkness - and it really works. Wished I had seen it in IMAX now.
I really enjoyed this movie. I was at school when the first series was aired. Watched most of the franchise and all of the movies. All of which were between just okay to most excellent. Stand out for me: Series 1, Insurrection, the Archer prequel, Wrath of Khan and First Contact.
The action was satisfying. The baddie was awesome. The main plot was good, the human interest sub-plots present and sometimes laugh out loud good to me, the heroic journey plot (Kirk) was woven through it, and the movie develops the relationship of the characters. All bodes well for the future.
Loved the reboot. It needed to be done. Look, when Series 1 was made Apollo was the only space programme that was vaguely aimed at something other than sub-orbitally delivered Mutually Assured Destruction. Buses, schools and toilets in America were still segregated. Martin Luther King helped to make sure that Lt.Uhura took the role so a future could be portrayed with an officer on the bridge that was a Negro. The idea that the only good Russian was a dead Russian was very popular during that period of the Cold War. So Series 1 beamed a different picture directly into young minds where science builds and not destroys, that the Cold War is a thing of the past, along with racial discrimination. That's what makes series 1 10/10 for me. And this backdrop has changed - not to mention the science having made some of the guesses look a bit dated.
The negative reviews puzzle me. Most of them (about 80%) are single reviews. They have reviewed no other movies. That makes them difficult to trust in any way shape or form. They may even just be a single reviewer with multiple email addresses. Then half of the rest, their reviews and ratings are for movies I have never heard of, or barely heard of. Can't trust them either. Then the remainder seem to be to be from perfectionists, that "if only I were in charge then...". To those perfectionists a quote: "Perfection is the enemy of good" Voltaire. A good movie - not a perfect one.
Like every other movie, book, story, fiction, you lay aside your critical faculty and enjoy it for what it really is. Star Wars is really enjoyable because it is a story about the struggle of good versus evil. The Matrix is enjoyable because it is the struggle of a sleeping man dreaming they're awake to awaken to their full potential. Shawshank Redemption is really good because it is a story of Red's journey to break free from fear and recover hope. To miss the core element in any movie is to miss the whole point of the movie.
And this movie is really enjoyable because it is a good romp, with likable characters, awesome baddies, and it is fun. If you don't like it because it is not a great or perfect movie then get off your behind and make movies that are better. Otherwise enjoy them for what they are, just like we have to enjoy our children - for what they are.
Not a great movie, but a good one. Re-watchable. I will buy it to add to my collection. 9/10