The franchise marches on...

Rating: 7/10 (5 February 2014)

Hate to spoil things for ya, but we KNOW all the good guys will survive this movie. Why? Because they all went on to star in a legendary TV show which ran for 3 years and 6 spin-off films. Yep, this is the second prequel flick to the original Star Trek, and it's just as much of a white knuckle ride as part one, with some unexpectedly moving scenes thrown into the bargain, too. All the cast really DO look like younger versions of their older counterparts, and it's their camaraderie which provides many of the best moments. There are those amazing special effects too... But meh, you could have guessed that.
I do have a number of small bugbears though... for a start, the climax never seems to end. Forget about pausing for breath, it throw around 5 crisis at us in a row, and by the end of it all you'll probably feel physically drained. And how is it that this superhuman nemesis they're after is able to take out an entire squadron of Klingon warriors almost on his lonesome in hand-to-hand combat, but can't even dispatch Mr Spock in a fistfight towards the end? I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for this. Perhaps Spock could give it to me himself. 7/10