Am I just getting old, or what?

Rating: 5/10 (11 May 2013)

When someone asks me, how was Star Trek? My first inclination is to say it was loud and bright. It seems to me that it has become standard practice to cut the intelligence out of movies that try to have some sort of action/drama synergy and add more action. Its like the writers are sitting around the table saying, "How can we make this cooler." Living in Asia, I can tell you that that philosophy has really worked for bringing in the East Asian audience- they really like the big flash, bang bang, coolness of things. You see it walking down the street every day, so its not surprising that Hollywood panders to them. Its also not surprising that it panders to adolescents, they have the most disposable income. It is surprising however, that reviewers that apparently aren't Chinese and clearly aren't adolescent would describe this movie (and others like it) as the greatest thing since popcorn.
Putting all that aside, there were parts of this movie that were good, others that just didn't make sense, and more that left me saying, "Why the f*ck is this happening." The interesting parts of this movie were apparently not important enough to become the focus off the story. I think if they had focused on the impending conflict between the Federation and the Klingons it would have been an easy way to make it interesting, but that's just one option. Another thing, they really sell Kirk as a bad captain. Twenty minutes into this film i thought, wow you really are a sh*t captain. Then there is Spock. Apparently being more human and playing to your emotions rather than your brain is the ultimate Good. What's a brain for anyway. SO anyway, rant over, maybe this movie could be a six, but no, its not its a five, so suck it.