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Rating: 3/10 (29 May 2019)

I'm not sure why this movie got such good user ratings. It was the first of the franchise which actually bored me. The film was a mindless action movie and had none of the intelligence of any of the television series. It's hard to enjoy the it even as a simplistic action movie when you can't summon up any interest in the characters' fates. Try as I might, I truly couldn't care what happened to any of them. Maybe I cared a little bit about Khan, but that would only be because of Benedict Cumberbatch's fantastic acting skills. The character of Khan himself was flat, just like all of the rest of the characters.
I'm super disappointed in this movie, especially since I like JJ Abrams and the work he did on SW:TFA. I think the weak point in Star Trek Into Darkness was the writing. It always shocks me how much money studios are willing to invest in production values, actors salaries, and special effects. Yet they treat the writing as an afterthought. Not sure if that's because they don't invest in top-notch writers or because they put such limitations on the writers that there's not much they can do to make the plot interesting.
Don't waste your money or time to watch this. A good two-and-a-half hour nap would be time more wisely spent.