film has good action

Rating: Null/10 (26 August 2013)

*Spoiler/plot- Star Trek: Into the Darkness, 2013. A dark internal war plot is hatched by unknown forces against StarFleet. Kirk and crew are brought in to solve the mystery due to their past unorthodox measures and deny-ability for StarFleet in diplomatic circles.
*Special Stars- Chis Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Carl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Benedict Cumberpatch, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Weller, Alice Eve, Noel Clarke.
*Theme- Courage with communication is the universal truth.
*Trivia/location/goofs- Film is dedicated to post 9/11 disaster veterans that served. Christopher Doohan, son of Star Trek:TOS chief engineer has a background performer role at the transporter console next to Mr. Pegg. Locations: StarFleet Headquarters is Getty Art Museum-entrance foyer, back water feature patio, and front steps. USS Enterprise engine & warp core room is The Vany Nuys Budweiser beer brewing tank room. Special Effects scenes shot in Iceland. GOOFS- *Major confusing plot hole: The older Spock calling in at the right moment to the USS enterprise on main viewer and talking to his younger self, Quinto Spock 'Prime'. (Prime Directive violation?). Casting goof- Kahn is supposedly from the Indian Sub-continent and Benicio Del Torro was being considered but contracts got stalled on pay. Mr. Cumberbatch as a last choice for the role and doesn't fit the Star Trek Canon. IN the London shots, the British Union Jack is flying wrong-side up.
*Emotion- On whole this film has good action and writing to follow it's previous reboot of Star Trek. Fans that know the S.T. Canon will have problems with the extremely bad casting choice of Mr. Cumberbatch to play the villain from the subcontinent of India, Khan. There was several dizzying scenes with too much camera movement, instead of distracting lens flare. All of Kirk's crew received good meaty supporting scenes and they were heroic in them. There seemed to be too much running around in many scenes. Several scenes and their blocking were exactly like and looked like scenes from other iconic films. The opening scene was like 'Raiders of the Lost Ark, others stole from 'The Godfther' and so on. That was not helpful and sunk any much needed 'suspension of belief' the sci-fi audience needed to enjoy this film to the fullest. Also, there seemed an inordinate need and amount of Star Trek 'homages' to previously know or seen plot points. That also hindered viewers 'suspension of belief'.
*Based On- Gene Roddenberry's original TV series, Star Trek.