This is a demonstration of what's wrong with Hollywood

Rating: 4/10 (17 April 2014)

The poor writing and the bad acting converge with the ridiculous lights in this epic to re-boot Star Trek.
That's not to say that the original cast of the Star Trek series from the 1960s had great acting. Taking a cowboy and putting him into the Captain's chair didn't always work well. The difference was the writing.
They weren't trying to use a checklist to do a TV series, as much as this movie's writers were.
Rather than create a totally unrelated story and make it great, they chose to pick bits and pieces of Star Trek and other media to piece together the requirements of the checklist.
It's obvious that the budget was blown on sets and special effects, not on acting and not on writing.
What's memorable? Nothing else but the lighting.
That said, it wasn't nearly as bad as the first re-boot, as it didn't really have anything worthwhile to recommend it.
This one, as a continuance of the alternative, was less of a mess. However, there was no feeling of confrontation or any real emotion of any kind. The drama was surreal and the humor wasn't funny. This was a special effects movie with no personality. It could have been just as effective made as a 1960s-style animation.