Abrams' Monumental Ego on show rather than a 'Star Trek' film!

Rating: 3/10 (5 June 2013)

The film bounds along, and that's all the good news! The film is just an arrogant aside from director JJ Abrams, who thinks he is untouchable and can get away with anything on screen, which includes giving the 'v' to both SciFi fans and 'Star Trek' devotees, as well as producing a lazy action flick in which he has lifted and plagiarised so much it is a positive embarrassment. Some of the CGI and action is OK, but we get a repeat of the spacesuit flying sequence from the first reboot by Abrams - run out of inspiration already? The plot is a repeat of several old Star Treks, except they did it better. Holes are all over the place - the worst when Benedict Cumberbatch manages to hide 72 of his mates inside photon torpedoes rather than revive them from their cryogenic state! Incredible and terrible all in one! The dialogue and characters have already run their course - anymore Spock and Kirk immature spats and I will scream! And as for snogging on the main deck - not even William Shatner's ego was that big! But the major central problem is that the villain is none other than old foe KHAN, played by that well known Asian actor Benedict Cumberbatch. He has no back story except he is a genetically engineered criminal mastermind like Lex Luthor - lazy or what! It would appear that the only villains allowed in Hollywood are English actors and North Koreans - certainly not BRICs! In a cameo, Leonard Nimoy even gives the character his full Asian sub-continent name - Othello can only be played by a black actor but Khan!!!??? No, the original episode on TV had far more heft and intellectual credibility than this sloppy popcorn ( and that's an insult to popcorn!) movie. But there was one moment of originality, bringing in Alice Eve as a scientist, like that original episode, dangled the possibility of a repeat of the brave New World and 'Botany Bay', but instead we find out that in the 23rd century women still wear 1980s black bra and panties! No, being an auteur has responsibilities, Mr Abrams, and you do not take them seriously. God help, Star Wars 7.