Star Trek: Into Brainless

Rating: 7/10 (27 May 2013)

As I said on my way out from the theater, "Well, I didn't hate it".
On the good side, I liked the character development of a more humble Kirk (though it was pretty heavy handed). I liked Khan's character overall.
I have some technical issues and plot issues with this movie that kept me from loving it.
Technical Issues First:
1 - A free fall from space toward Earth would result in *ZERO* gravity. Instead we get the dramatic but dumb tumbling gravity everyone going every direction scene. Maybe simulating zero G would have been too expensive given the budget constraints(? as if there were budget constraints here).
2 - Why does every space movie have sound effects of objects whizzing by in space? NO AIR = NO SOUND!
There are more, these were the big ones that stick in my mind.
Plot Issues: So, an inside agent blows up a library (aka super secret research center). Within hours (minutes?), Star Fleet figures out and declares war against the prime suspect (Khan). Then Khan shows up and starts shooting everything that moves then beams himself to the Klingon home world. He didn't kill everyone, just some people, really just one character that we know. Seems pretty ham handed for a guy like Khan. Then, while Kirk is off to seek vengeance, we learn that the top admiral of Star Fleet has a secret base with a giant ship built to kill Klingons apparently...and this is why Khan blew up the library and made an assassination attempt on Star Fleet top brass? But then Khan beams to the Klingon world and kills Klingons to save Kirk...because Kirk is a man of conscience? Oh, and at the end, the dreadnought ship CRASHES INTO AND DESTROYS MOST OF London! Meh, at least they got the bad guy. No need to dwell on the cost of life involved.
I guess my feelings are that this movie is a mix of being a really simple, heavy handed, and incomplete morality play combined with hints of what could be a very complex and unexplored and ignored plot. I didn't hate it but I don't love it either.
If, at the end of what I assume will be a trilogy, Star Fleet emerges as the enlightened version that we know of from the original Roddenberry vision then my whole attitude toward these two movies will shift. For now, it's just not there for me.
Any why does the Enterprise have a giant beer distillery in it?