Impressively unimpressive

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2013)

This is not a good movie, and here are the reasons why:
1. It seems that showing fast action sequences in 3D was the main purpose of the movie, not storytelling. The movie is loaded with action while the storytelling is poor.
2. You need to know the characters from the first reboot movie or the classic Star Trek movies. If you don't, you are lost. The storytelling is so neglected that you hardly will identify with or care for any of the characters in the movie.
3. There is too much action - impressive action, yes, but action. After the third action scene, it gets OTT. The action has to get more and more spectacular to impress. And it's so damn repetitive that it tends to get boring - and in the end, it leaves you indifferent.
4. The dramaturgy is really bad. While the interesting core of the story is well put, there are way too many twists during the last 30 minutes - to justify even more action scenes I suppose. They're totally unnecessary (as much as all the action) and wreck whatever good could have been said about the movie.
5. The story itself is deficient, maybe also due to the dramaturgy that raped the story with all its twists - hard to tell what came first. Anyway, the movie comes with a huge packing of action-crying-action- crying. Hard men fight, one minute later they cry for each other, then the next attack comes, then more crying. It's quite ridiculous and very cheesy.
6. The movie looks like plastic. The classic Star Trek movies had a certain weight, a dark touch to them. This one is called "Into darkness" but looks like bubble gum, with a captain who makes you think of Barbie's Ken rather than of James T. Kirk.
Conclusion: too much of everything, especially repetitive action, poor storytelling, a basically good core-story wrapped in too much slay-cry- slay-cry. Trekkies won't like that movie, people with no clue about Star Trek won't either. I'm not a Trekkie, and I know the classic Start Trek movies. Still, I found this effort impressively unimpressive.