Good movie... Although with some underused characters

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 2013)

I am very picky in watching sci-fi movies, they tend to be too "inward" (= slow, few lines) or too technological to me. Star Trek series holds a nice balance between them and, therefore, I have seen all on them; without a wow! feeling, but still having a good time. The movie in question had the latter influence on me, I was eager to know how all the space mess created would end. Well, sometimes there were lots of explosions and flashes, but great (Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg - Brits outperforming Americans again :)) or good (the rest) actors prevented the movie to become a purely technical course of events. Some actors, however, could spend more time on screen (Zachary Quinto, Anton Yelchin) and the character of Dr. Carol Marcus provided no additional value to the movie. As for the main star Chris Pine, I am not a fan of him, he is not a top-A-whatever grade actor to me. On the other hand, he was not annoying, although I would have expected to see his presence less and others' more on screen :) Star Trek Into Darkness is definitely for you if you like space action with versatile characters. Sci-fi fans following the book should probably avoid it as the script is a mix.