Don't sit too close to the (IMAX 3-D) screen!

Rating: 8/10 (14 May 2013)

This is an excellent follow-up to the first film in the re-booted series – essentially, the story is a re-imagining of the Khan story in the alternate reality created in the previous film. There are some stunning action sequences and a detailed imagining of London and San Francisco in the 23rd Century. Unfortunately, we were only able to book seats 3 rows up from the front and were too close to the screen. I look forward to seeing this again with more space between me and the screen so that I can enjoy the detail and better cope with the very fast action sequences. It would be nice to see a TV series now come out of this (which would allow smaller scale drama / hard science fiction without the need for so much epic-level action) but with the same high production values, same principal actors and use of the same film sets – as the crew now go on their 5 year mission. Perhaps such a TV series could be inter-leaved with one or two more big budget movies  Excellent but spoilt for me by the 3-D IMAX presentation. Khan is brilliantly portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch. There's another nice surprise cameo appearance by Leonard Nimoy in character as 'Spock Prime' – but that should be the last now – enough is enough!