It'll do.

Rating: 6/10 (19 May 2013)

I went to this with great expectations and for the most part I wasn't let down, but as I think about the next day there are some flaws here, that's for sure, and I can't get them off of my mind.
The opening scene was pretty random with Kirk having stolen something for some reason. It was an excuse to take Kirk's command away and give it back to him in twenty minutes or so. All of that was too rushed. I also wonder if they can ever make another Star Trek without the Enterprise being reduced to scaffolding by the end of the movie. The darn thing used to not be able to go in the atmosphere, too. I hate the new look of beaming people. T.V.'s simple special effects were better for this one thing.
First, the 3D filming was flat out bad during close ups. The scene of Kirk and Pike in the bar had every shot with huge, gray, fuzzy blobs taking up 1/3 of the screen. I didn't like the look of the 3D at all. If often distracted me from the movie.
Star Trek, even as a reboot, does not need as much action as it has, in can forgo a little for some story telling. In the original series Kirk always would outwit the villain , not beat his brains out and this change just makes him seem awfully stupid in comparison with the Kirk in the original time line. Spock hopping around with Kahn on flying cars is also way to over the top.
The scene with Kirk dying and Spock outside the "radiation chamber" that mirror images the original scene from "Wrath of Kahn" was too much. I was crying, literally, but only because I was remembering the original. The reboot has not done enough character development yet for me to believe that Kirk and Spock are best friends on a deep spiritual level as in the original when we had three years worth of television to base it on (and some great initial character development in the movie).
The way they were going to bring Kirk back to life was too easy and obvious. My kids were saying, "tribble juice!"
All in all this went for too many explosions and fist fights and not enough character development and story telling. I wasn't going to try to weigh this against "Wrath of Kahn," but frankly they made me (especially by having the Leonard Nimoy cameo). I decided I was a bad father for taking my kids to this without having them see the original Botany Bay episode and the "Wrath of Kahn" movie.
I did enjoy the romp, but it really didn't feel much like Star Trek to me. More like a Vin Diesel movie. I suppose that this is what the world wants from the series in this day and age, but I always felt like Roddenberry's vision of the future as a place where violence was a last resort was a good one.
One last thing, where the hell were the Klingons? I can't believe they just let these humans come in and kill a bunch of them and then a space battle with two wounded ships and they didn't do something.
One last, last thing. How do they get from Chronos to Earth in seconds. Even at warp speeds that should take a long damn time. That's why it's a FIVE YEAR mission and it takes Voyager so long to get home.
Six photon torpedoes out of ten.