Roddenberry is Spinning in His Grave

Rating: 2/10 (12 September 2013)

I didn't watch this movie in the theater, because having seen the trailer I sensed it would be little more than a CGI fest. I finally relented and watched it on On Demand last night, and my intuition was correct: there is hardly a scene in the entire movie that doesn't rely on some kind of spectacular special effect.
As a fan of the original TV series, the biggest problem I have with this movie is its complete departure from Roddenberry's admittedly Utopian view of a future in which the people of Earth have evolved into a much more peaceful and tolerant breed (yeah, I know this ST reboot takes place in an "alternate universe").
Once key point of this movie, amongst others, seems to be that in the 23rd Century you can't trust Starfleet any more than you can trust the U.S. Government in our time.
Sad.