Disappointing continuation of the well known franchise

Rating: 5/10 (13 April 2014)

I saw it yesterday on TV and must say I expected some more. It started with some bad CGI effects on that planet where Spock saves that civilization by stopping the volcano from erupting. Then it features a dreadful plot. They could probably live for another 20 movies with such simplistic plots. Some bad guy from the past, or from the future occurs and, obviously wants to destroy the federation, while Enterprise with its captain will save it. But wait a minute... haven't we seen that already? Yes, in 1982 they made "the wrath of khan" but the stories are not at all connected in this one. As a fan of the series I would have preferred reignition of the "next generation" series and character instead of the wash out Kirk and his bad English crue. So let's see what's left to see from this movie: Acting ... as I said it before, todays movies don;t need acting, you get ordinary dialogues and film action scenes (oops, you don't they either use stunts, of CGI directly). And one more thing , I would like to see just once an ugly woman in the role of the brilliant engineer/scientist. I mean all the "admiral's daughters" must be models? I would also like to see this directors getting away from the federation bureaucracy fixed idea. In all the movies, the federation leaders were completely stupid and annoying. Honourable mentions for Spock and Khan in acting. Also the cheap humour displayed by Scott in the tightest moments make the whole plot ridiculous and pushes the production not far from Marvel comics inspired movies. BTW fix that god*** reactor for good! I haven't seen just one movie in the series where that piece of cr** would function well, and I am tired of that pseudo-science explanations of what happened and why isn't working. Man... I have never seen one screwdriver in the whole series. All the technical issues are caused by a "damaged plasma pipe" which can be fixed "from software" using that touchscreen. That was cool 20-30 years ago, but today they should think of something else. However, the movie gets some good points by the way it resolves the conflict, in a "biblical" way I would say. The "sinner" is not killed, but saved for redemption. My advise: if are a fan and have seen other movies, don;t waste the time. If you're new to it, go for it.