Fantastic CGI, nonsensical plot, irritating characters

Rating: 5/10 (5 April 2014)

Fantastic CGI, nonsensical plot, irritating characters.
From the outset, I didn't find the movie that great. This was due to the irritating characters. Didn't like Captain Kirk (or at least Chris Pine's maverick portrayal of him) in the first movie, and that didn't change here. Scotty was just so clichéd, and the constant whining in a fake Scottish accent was annoying. Doctor McCoy was the worst of the lot: even more whiny than Scotty, and everything he said was so cheesy. Every line of Dr McCoy's dialogue had me rolling my eyes.
Didn't mind Spock, Sulu or Chekov though.
Initially, it looked like the plot might pull the movie through. Was intriguing. However, from a point, it takes a bizarre and nonsensical turn. Kirk basically sides with a terrorist against his own fleet. Its as if JJ Abrams was trying to make a political statement, and a very misguided one.
After that the plot is pretty random, and the movie never recovers.
CGI is great, of course.
No standout performances, in keeping with the annoying characters.