Star Trek Returns

Rating: 5/10 (16 May 2013)

I absolutely loved the previous film. It was a huge tip of the hat to the Star Trek legacy. It turned a couple of things inside out which made it interesting, fresh and exciting. And with a few surprises thrown in, it was a perfect package.
Into Darkness is just more of the same. The whole movie has J.J. Abrams and team continuing taking old plots & events and putting it in their alternate time line. The film is chock a block with these this time around. Sadly its not novel anymore and it all seems forced. Like Superman Returns, the film makers got so busy with what has happened that they just forgot to do anything new with it.
Its disappointing to admit that after 2 movies, there actually isn't anything new added to the Star Trek universe. Not one single thing. In fact, now the Enterprise has been built, damaged, repaired, damaged and repaired for the second time (No spoiler here. The poster has the ship going down in flames), and they have not yet started on their space voyages, which is what the ship was build for, the purpose of the crew, the core and essence of Star Trek.