After watching it 1-1/2 times.....

Rating: 3/10 (18 September 2013)

The story is really kind of all over the place. Everyone's plans seem to hinge on things they can't control or someone else that they don't trust and can't possibly know what their real intentions are.
The admiral: why keep Khan's people alive? To control him? A guy who can transport across light years isn't controllable. His vision to militarize Starfleet doesn't resonate for the audience because we don't know why he wants this nor are we made to care.
Khan: why put his own people into the admiral's warheads? Does he know that the admiral will get the Enterprise to fire them at him on Qo'Nos? Are they supposed to land gently on the surface so he can revive them then? If he has access to them in the first place, revive them and be on your merry way.
The admiral KNOWS Khan put his people in the warheads, I just don't understand what anybody's motives are in this movie.
That nonsense in the beginning with the volcano: why submerge the Enterprise when you don't have to? "They (the natives) saw the Enterprise!" They were going to eventually unless you planned to keep it underwater forever, it has to come up at some time! The scene with Kirk, Spock and Uhura felt real and I actually really liked it and found it touching but Kirk's death was phoned in. Not moving in any way at all like the one from "Wrath of Khan".
If JJ Abrams feels the need to reinvent Star Trek, perhaps he should stop scavenging on the older version's carcass and come up with an original thought. I know he's capable of it.