Ex Benedict

Rating: 6/10 (10 May 2013)

I guess I'm closer to the average man in the street than an out-and-out Trekkie. I watched several re-runs of the original - Kirk, Spock, Bones - and the second team - Picard, Data, Crusher, Gordy - on TV but only saw sections of some of the movies before 2009. This one started out badly; an away team were being pursued by matchstick men swathed in bandages, for all the world like Egyptian Mummys who somehow escaped mid-embalming before the hands and legs were bound. This was like an Ed Wood movie made for HALF a stick of gum. Once this was resolved - turns out they were trying to save a primitive planet - and we got back to earth the movie picked up. Most of the 'action' sequences left me cold, just hardware slugging it out with other hardware and destroying cities in the process, but the characters were well drawn and given close to grown-up dialog to speak. The acting was slightly better than you'd expect in this kind of film, like a graduating class at Drama School end of term production. Worth a look