Check your brain at the door...

Rating: 6/10 (21 May 2013)

This movie was mindlessly enjoyable, but riddled with plot contrivances and nonsensicals. The opening scene seemed liked a total ripoff of the Temple Run app. Literally, Kirk and Bones running out of a temple while being chased by natives. Khan saves the child of a grieving father. All he asks in return is that the father blow himself up along with all of downtown London? WHAT? WHY? So that he could break into an archive building? WHAAAT? WHY? Do they still have archive buildings in the 23rd century? Spock tattles on Kirk for disobeying the Prime Directive (which sets up a series of other events) but that's exactly what HE did when freefell into the belly of the volcano. WHAT? Almost every other scene in this movie makes no sense plotwise. On another note, Uhura, Bones, and Chekov are completely wasted in this movie. Chekov spends the entire movie running thru a maze of pipework in the engine room, Uhura is whiny and scorned and spends the whole movie talking about how Spock doesn't really love her. Bones is just there to say "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor....". This is a video game of a popcorn movie. If you want to make any sense of the plot you'll be disappointed.