Awesome as a movie... but not Star Trek

Rating: 9/10 (5 August 2013)

I give it a 9 out of 10 because as a movie, if you are not a Trekkie, if you had no idea what Star Trek was, it IS visually stunning and I went to see it twice.
However this is not really Star Trek. It is so far off the original... which makes me fear dearly for Star Wards that J.J. has taken over.
The movie is very predictable and it often made me say "Yeah, I've seen this before in the previous Star Trek by J.J". Same tricks same visuals, same theme..
I think Khan was played very well by B. Cumberbatch. He was scary, formidable, cold... but he lacked the charm of Ricardo Montalban . I liked the fact that Spock finally let his human side show through. He chose the Vulcan side but he IS half human. I know a lot of critics didn't like that BUT this IS a re-launch, the events that led the original Spock to be cold and logical did not transpire in this universe, so why Spock Jr, NOT chose his human side?
I liked the "coming of age" of Kirk... but I though McCoy was underutilized and a little cheesy. What the heck happened to Simon Pegg? We had trouble recognizing him!! Did he have a face lift or something?
All in all I liked it... I would love to see more. If you are a hard core Trekkie you will find a ton to complain about. If you keep an open mind, you will enjoy it!