Truther Into Darkness.

Rating: 1/10 (30 January 2020)

In the mood for some Sci-Fi viewings,I dug into a pile of unwatched DVD's. With the new Picard series starting,and the film having sat in my "to watch" pile for years (!) I decided it was the right time to at last go into the darkness.
View on the film:
Falling to wipe away his Twitter history, co-writer/nutter Roberto Orci's "Truther" beliefs cast a foul smell across the new frontier. Hitting the opening with a "blow back" attack in a script co-written with fellow bumbling hacks Alex "The Mummy" Kurtzman and Damon "Prometheus" Lindelof (what a talented trio!) the writers set the timer off for Khan's arrival to be the thinnest "allegorical" facade for a 9/11 Truther.
Entering the "Deep State" of Star Fleet keeping Section 31 in a normal looking government office building, the writers push the message hard that Admiral Marcus is the "puppet-master", pulling the strings of the savage warrior who did covert missions to help Starfleet prepare for war against the Soviets/" Klingons" /now has rebelled and is launching terrorist attacks for his 72 virg,I mean "72 pod people" Khan (yep,that's the subtly we're facing here.)
Giving everyone on the Enterprise a lobotomy, the writers turn the ship to blindly follow "Deep State" Marcus to be used with Khan as a threat of war, leading to a utterly strange/thinly veiled re-enactment of the Gulf of Tonkin, whilst a stand-in for drone strikes takes place.
When not indulging nut- job Orci's fight against "Coincidence Theorists.", (the term he used for people who called him out, until Orci deleted his Twitter account in 2013-on September 11th yes, he really is full Truther)the writers use Spock's fists to pummel all humanism out of Star Trek. Ridding any chance of a discussion between the crew or different opinions on Khan to be express,
The writers also decimate the heart/mind/soul dynamic of Bones/Kirk and Spock, by replacing characterisation, for mind-numbing, idiotic violent outbursts, leaving Bones mumbling on the sidelines, Spock seeing fists as the way to get his point across, and Kirk displaying no leadership/ thoughtfulness towards his crew, before he hands out what could be largely avoided violence.
Fittingly locked in a glass cell like a second-rate Hannibal Lecter knock-off, Benedict Cumberbatch gives a incredibly poor performance as Khan, destroying the intrigue and calculating intelligence of Khan, in exchange for a naff panto act,where Benny pulls his lips and gurning each time he is meant to appear threatening.
Opening by throwing the camera round like a volleyball and stating on The Daily Show "I made this film for people who hate Star Trek" (or those with half a brain-clearly)inept director Jar Jar Abrams continues his prat-fall adventures into Sci-Fi franchises, keeping the real "Khan" name from being seen on screen,in order to take Trek down to his Mystery Box level. (yo Jar Jar!, that shtick "Lost" any value years ago.)
Out of his rotting Mystery Box, Jar Jar pulls out his poke 'em in the eye lens flair, thumping the camera on the ground like a basketball with jabbing, distracting flairs of red poking the viewer,and shoddy camera moves floating round with a inability to stop and allow moments for the Enterprise crew to be shown doing actual teamwork, in order for Jar Jar to dump Star Trek into a dark corner.