Die Hard Fans will love it

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2013)

First the good news - the action sequences and the special effects are fantastic. The not quite so good news is that the plot is minimal and pretty predictable, and the acting (and / or casting), with the exception on Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan, is abysmal - half the time I was wondering if I was watching a spoof! Scottie, Bones and Chekov were particularly awful.
I am not a big Star Trek fan but had enjoyed the original Star Trek movie because of its terrific storyline, but I did not particularly enjoy this. The movie's rating at the time of writing is 8.3 so I am obviously in a minority. Die Hard fans will love it but I wonder how true Trekkies would feel. The absence of complexity, sophistication or anything remotely uplifting of the human spirit in the plot seems so non Star Trek.