To boldly go to see Star Trek: Into Darkness so I can have kick ass adventure in space!!

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2013)

I highly anticipated the movie and was not disappointed by it. First thing first, before seeing this movie. People must watch these few things to make sense of the story is trying to tell. The first one is Star Trek: The Original Series 'Space Seed' Season 1, Episode 22 (1967), an episode that has a similar plot to this movie. The second film to watch before this film is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, (1982) set fifteen years after "Space Seed" and the last one is Star Trek (2009). All three movies are needed for understanding this film. The movie go like this, a terrorist name John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), a former Starfleet agent just bomb London, and flee to Kronos, the Klingons planet. Now Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and the crew of the Enterprise is called to bring him back to Earth into justice. Without spoiling too much, the movie was a very good sequel to the 2009's Star Trek. The action, the story, the visual was top notch from beginning to end. The twist in the movie wasn't too big of a twist, to any fanboy or trekkie who research the film beforehand, but for anybody who isn't a die-hard fan, might find the movie a bit confusing. Even if you don't get it, the movie does a good job trying to explain it. The only problem is that the movie felt like déjà vu of pieces of old Star Trek movies scenes stitch into a new movie. It felt like the story cheated in a way, because it use the same tactics just changing the characters into reverse roles. Watch the ending to Wrath of Khan for more detail and then watch this movie ending. The audio and visual were decent. The acting was pretty good. I love Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain. His deep voice, and chilling stare is scary. He really did look unstoppable. I enjoyed the Enterprise crew. Everybody did their bits even if their acting seem a bit too much caricature. Still, it's hard to believe that how young everybody on the crew looks, that this James Kirk would be allow to be Captain for so long. Tired of the man-children. In the real world, someone as young, irresponsible and arrogant would not even be a deck officer in the navy, let alone a captain. Also I believe that Star Trek isn't no longer Sci-Fiction, but more like Fantasy in space, so Sci-Fantasy. I think they finally got the picture, seeing how popular Star Wars was, and Director J.J Abrams decide to make it funnier to watch. Sure, Star Trek tries to rely on science more than Star Wars, but let's face it, there's barely anything plausible on some of the Original Star Trek movies, too. Yes, the science in the Sci-Fiction doesn't make sense, but who cares when the story is that damn good. Enjoy the ride. Yes, at first, I thought the first 2009 Star Trek movie was going to be a joke, but I learn to love it. This isn't your TV Show having taken a turn for the worst, this isn't a disappointing climax to your favorite franchise. This is just another interpretation of the Star Trek Films. No one's forcing you to watch. This is turning out to be a great franchise in my opinion. Overall: There are tons of amazing action sequence throughout the movie blew me away. Enjoy it!