Star Trek Beyond

Plot synopsis:
In the opening scene, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) is meeting with the Teenaxi people to make a treaty between them and their enemies, the Fenopians. Kirk is holding an artifact that he claims is a gift of peace from the Fenopians, but the Teenaxi leader (Shea Wigham) considers it a threat. He rolls down to confront Kirk, where we see that the leader and the rest of his people are small creatures. Still, they gang up on Kirk and attack him. Kirk calls for Scotty (Simon Pegg) to beam him back up to the Starship Enterprise.Kirk records a log, stating that they are now about three years into their five-year mission to explore the ends of the universe. Kirk has become rather bored by this point, and he wonders what else there is to see out there.Kirk is joined by Bones McCoy (Karl Urban) with a bottle of scotch that he took out of Chekhov's (Anton Yelchin) locker. Bones notes that Kirk's birthday is coming up, which Kirk isn't looking forward to since it reminds him of how his dad died on the same day, and how Kirk will be a year older than his dad when he died. Bones states that Kirk has spent all this time figuring out who his dad was in his life, and now he's wondering what it means to be Kirk himself.The crew descends onto Starbase Yorktown to replenish their supplies. Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) appear to be going through a rough patch in their relationship. She is ready to hand him back a necklace that he gave her, but he refuses to take it back. Mr. Sulu (John Cho) reunites with his life partner and their daughter. Spock is then called aside by two elder Vulcans. He is informed that his older self, Ambassador Spock Prime, has just died.Kirk meets with Commodore Paris (Shoreh Aghdashloo) to apply for a position as Vice Admiral. He requests that Spock be made captain of the Enterprise in his place.A distress signal is picked up by the Federation from an alien named Kalara (Lydia Wilson), who claims to have been part of a crew whose ship suffered a critical malfunction. She asks for help in rescuing her crew on the far side of the nebula.The Enterprise sets off on the rescue mission. As they approach a Class M planet, they are suddenly attacked by a massive cluster of ships. The aliens riding the ships invade the Enterprise. The crew tries fighting back, but their weapons aren't strong enough, and when Sulu tries to warp them out of there, they see that the ship's thrusters have been broken off by the enemy. The aliens then allow their leader, Krall (Idris Elba), to enter. His soldiers find the artifact that Kirk possessed earlier, which happens to be a bio-weapon called the Abronath. However, when Krall tries to get his hands on it, they find that it has already been taken. The crew starts to evacuate. Spock and Bones get in a pod that heads down to the planet. Krall almost kills Kirk until Uhura separates the saucer from the ship, taking Krall with her. Kirk then goes with Chekhov and Kalara as they make their escape. As the pod is ejected, Kirk watches the Enterprise crash to the ground.Scotty's escape pod nearly flies off a cliff, but he jumps out in time. He is cornered in the forest by the planet's savage inhabitants. Before they can attack him, a scavenger named Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) shows up and beats the savages. Scotty introduces himself to her as an engineer. They agree to work together, with Scotty helping fix something of Jaylah's, and she will help him find the rest of the crew. Jaylah takes Scotty to her home, which happens to be a long-lost Enterprise-class starship, the USS Franklin.Spock and Bones have also crash-landed, with Spock getting a piece of a metal pipe stuck in his abdomen. Bones manages to pull it out and stop the bleeding. The two navigate the area, but they must slow down since Spock is still badly wounded. As they sit down, Spock tells Bones about Ambassador Spock's death. He feels that he must continue carrying out his older self's work on New Vulcan, and he wanted to tell Kirk, but Bones says he probably wouldn't like that.After landing, Kirk confronts Kalara, thinking she knew what was coming. She defends herself, saying it was to help save her crew. With Chekhov, they rush to find the Abronath on the saucer. Kalara then turns on Kirk, confirming she led them to a trap and that she was working with Krall the whole time. She finds that the Abronath is not where Kirk claimed to have left it. Moments later, the three are ambushed by drones. Kirk and Chekhov manage to activate the saucer's thrusters, which lift the saucer high enough until it crashes down hard, killing Kalara.Krall captures Uhura, along with Sulu and the rest of the crew. He and his soldiers take them to his base of operations. It is shown that Krall is able to drain people of their life force to rejuvenate himself, as well as alter his appearance. He threatens to kill Sulu for the Abronath, but an Ensign named Syl (Melissa Roxburgh) gives it up, having kept it hidden in the back of her head. He brings Uhura and Syl into a chamber where he demonstrates the use of the weapon. He locks Syl in the chamber and activates the Abronath, releasing a black cloud that wraps itself around Syl and causes her to decompose. Krall intends to use this against the Federation.Kirk and Chekhov run into a trap that Jaylah set up, encasing them in a crystallized shell. Scotty and Jaylah find them, and she breaks them free when Scotty says they're part of his crew. They team up to rescue the rest of the crew. Scotty fixes the Franklin's beam pad to teleport people onto the ship. They start with Spock and Bones, who are about to get killed by some more drones until they are both beamed onto the Franklin. On the computer, they get a signal on Uhura's location since the necklace Spock gave her is also a tracking device. They see she's with the rest of the crew at Krall's hideout, but Chekhov says they are unable to beam everyone up from there. Kirk figures they need to head in there and come up with their own rescue plan. Jaylah wants no part in this since she knows people who go near Krall's camp never come back alive. Her father fought Krall's right-hand man Manas (Joe Taslim) and was killed. Scotty says she is not alone and can work with the others to save the crew.Kirk creates a diversion with a motorcycle he found on the ship while Spock and Bones sneak around to take a number of crew members at a time onto a pad and use a beacon to beam them onto the Franklin. Krall's men attack, leading to Jaylah fighting Manas one-on-one. Kirk protects the crew by spreading the crystallizing material to shield them from the villains. As the rest of the crew is saved, only Kirk and Jaylah remain. Jaylah pushes Manas off the pad to his death and jumps to reach Kirk as he activates his beacon, sending them back to the Franklin.Krall and his army fly toward Yorktown so he can activate the Abronath and kill everyone. The Enterprise crew follows. Spock and Bones beam onto a drone ship and figure out that they need to use a distraction to get by the other drones. Scotty uses Jaylah's music system to create discordant noise with The Beastie Boys' "Sabotage". The drones get obliterated, leaving only Krall's ship plus two others. The Franklin manages to stop Krall's ship, causing it to crash into a fountain.The crew goes off to find Krall and make sure he's dead. They find two dead bodies drained of their life force, knowing Krall did it. As they continue making their way, they notice a video of the original crew of the Franklin from centuries ago. Uhura spots a familiar face among everyone else. The man she sees is Balthazar Edison, captain of the Franklin, but he is now Krall. Kirk asks to see Edison's old logs, skipping to the last one to see Edison having become jaded and angry with the Federation after his ship has gotten stranded with no help, following his crew's own series of missions. Edison mentioned discovering a life-sustaining force that he intended to use to keep himself alive.Krall, now looking slightly more like his old self, takes the Abronath to Yorktown's life support hub, which would allow the black cloud to spread throughout the entire starbase. Kirk finds Krall and starts fighting him to take the Abronath away from him. Kirk tries to reason with Krall, but he is no longer the same captain he once was. Kirk's crew attempts to open the doors into space to pull Krall out. Krall activates the Abronath, which starts releasing the black cloud. Kirk avoids getting killed and pushes Krall into the path of the cloud. The door opens and sucks Krall into space with the Abronath, where he is consumed by the cloud and is thus disintegrated. Kirk gets pulled out as well, but Spock and Bones fly in and pull him to safety.Commodore Paris offers Kirk the Vice Admiral position, but he chooses to remain a captain since he prefers to fly. Meanwhile, Spock goes through Ambassador Spock's old materials. Among them is a picture of the Enterprise crew in their old age.Bones then brings Kirk to a surprise birthday party for him, with the whole crew there to celebrate. Spock and Uhura reconcile their relationship. Kirk and Scotty pull some strings and get Jaylah into Starfleet Academy. The main crew then sees a new Enterprise ship is being built. With that, the crew recites the original "final frontier" monologue as they resume their mission.The film closes with the words "In Loving Memory of Leonard Nimoy" and "For Anton".

Tags: murder, violence, good versus evil, humor, revenge, sci-fi

Review:
Star Trek to me isn't about motorcycles and loud music, it's more about exploring science fiction concepts and themes through great storytelling (which this film has very little of).
After the noisy and irretrievably stupid (though reasonably entertaining) Into Darkness, I wasn't desperate to watch this one, but when I finally did I was relieved to discover that it was even more enjoyable than the first film in the reboot, a rollicking adventure with terrific alien weapons, fun McCoy/Spock repartee, a promising newcomer alien, and a lot of really excellent action scenes.
A true Star Trek movie for me is one with a nice story, sound science, a spec of humor, real characters, and last but not least; always in search of the human condition.
Star trek is more than the sum of episodes and movies, its a way of thinking, and inspired millions of people -personal and professional- to make the world a better place.
(Wich was a greate movie by the way)Star Trek is about interesting SF concepts and space phenomena, interstellar politics, social interaction with alien races and now and then a space battle.
This whole new series of parallel universe Star Trek movies is just a cheap ripoff of one of the best franchises ever made.
They cannibalized it for fast profit and killed their long term profit.Even if you would have wanted to bring a bit more action to a new series of Star Trek movies there would have been a more enjoyable way to do this.
A new series about the Klingon wars would have been the most profitable thing that would have been ever created and all fans would have loved it.Instead they just made a remake of Captain Kirks Star Trek and killed his character.
The crew disperse for a bit of R and R: Sulu (John Cho) goes off to spend time with his family (after the big internet furore, the gay aspect of this is very subtle); Kirk gets career advice from the Admiral; and Spock and Uhuru (Zoe Saldana) go their separate ways since – like Ross and Rachael – they are "on a break".The reverie is rudely interrupted by the arrival of a frantic alien called Kalara (Lydia Wilson) from the other side of a dense nebula.
Kirk's rescue mission however goes far from to-plan, and he and his crew are caught in the clutches of the warlord Krall (Idris Elba).What's nice about this film is that the core crew of Kirk, Spock, Uhuru, Bones (Karl Urban), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu and Chekov (the tragically departed Anton Yelchin) gel together really nicely as an ensemble cast.
There is also a touching tribute to Leonard Nimoy, who died while the film was in pre-production, woven into the story of which I'm sure he would have approved.Supporting the crew as a potential new character is the strikingly attractive and kick-ass Jaylah played by Sofia Boutella (the evil amputee Gazelle from "Kingsman").There's also some fine and innovative alien technology on display with the 'swarm-like' alien fleet harking back (in an expanded scale) to the invulnerability of the nanites from an original episode.Unfortunately, all of these positives are severely offset by a largely planet-bound Simon Pegg and Doug Jung story (didn't the woeful "Insurrection" teach writers that this tends not to be a good idea?) and action sequences that are so manically fast-moving that it is almost impossible to keep track of what exactly is happening.
I know Simon Pegg and director Justin ("Fast and Furious") Lin are huge Trekkers, but – sorry guys – this was a C- for me.It's a mildly diverting popcorn movie, but with (for me at least) yet another disappointing film, its getting to the point where the best 'summer blockbuster' is likely to be Deadpool and that was released in February!
I was absolutely blown away; what I thought was going to be a mindless, action-oriented Star Trek movie, was actually a brilliantly written and directed Star Trek film that felt more than fitting in the Star Trek universe.The spoiler-free storyline; the Enterprise is sent to investigate the disappearance of an alien race's crew in a nebula.
For the die- hard trekkies, there is plenty to think and talk about after seeing the movie, as there are tons of references and connections made to the rest of the Star Trek universe (including ancestors of Star Trek characters seen in later series...).Furthermore, the movies makes a touching tribute to the death of Leonard Nimoy, by announcing the death of Spock Prime.
After seeing this, I am starting to have more faith/confidence in the new cast continuing the Star Trek legacy and I look forward to the new films that come out in the series.
The old original Star Trek movies had well defined relationship stories in them but in this, it seems like the characters are secondary to the graphic presentations and fighting scenes.
The shonky sets and pre-CGI effects did not detract from the thoughtfulness of the writing.None of this applies in the "Beyond" disaster.The only thing I can say in its defence is that the CGI effects are up to standard - although they are often so bang-bang-bang that they lose the plot.It appears to me that the direction of this movie comes from the "Hello Kitty" far East mentality, where a logical plot line and exploration of the characters' motives play very much second best to infantile effects - however well they are done here..I managed some forty minutes so the ending cannot be reviewed by me.
Do yourself a favour and don't bother even with forty minutes.I was not a great fan of most of the previous Star Trek films - they lost so much from the original TV concepts - but this one is just dire..
And the scene with Spock and Dr McCoy on the planet has become my favourite Star Trek scene, EVER!!!So, if you're after a great fun time at the movies go watch Star Trek Beyond.
Star Trek used to be the (mostly lighthearted and optimistic) adventure kind of space movies, but since Into Darkness we've witnessed the arrival of Guardians of the Galaxy, the epitome of unseriousness, so I guess the writers didn't want the franchises to feel too similar, especially since they both have Zoe Saldana as a major character.
Justin Lin turned the whole selling point of Star Trek- multi planet adventure of Enterprise crews who have different personalities into a boring action movie.
Totally disappointed, too bad J J Abrams was busy with Starwars, if he chose Star Trek, it would be much suitable for him since Star Trek has much more interesting characters than Star Wars and Star Wars would be great for a action oriented director like Justin Lin..
It didn't drag, didn't bore me, didn't set off my "that is stupid" alarms, and had a pretty cool plot line.No point in giving a lot of information, I'll just say if you enjoyed the other new Star Trek movies, you will enjoy this one.If you get all whiny about lens flares or some shaky cam in some heavy action scenes, you may have some beefs.
Fortunately, it turned out to be a solid trek film.Star Trek Beyond begins with the Enterprise and it's crew on a five year research mission in uncharted space which was assigned to them at the end of the previous movie.
I think they did a marvelous job again and made a Star Trek movie just as great as the previous two installments.
The third act of the movie is the best (with an excellent soundtrack, Beastie Boys and Star Trek mixes very well!) and they once again pull out all the stops with visual and sound effects.The only caveat I have with this film is the slow start and the main plot being a bit simplistic.
So definitely check this one out if you liked the previous two Star Trek films, it's a solid and very entertaining journey..
This just felt very lazy in general and had some serious flaws in the story, especially at the end where it became clear that the writers were struggling to resolve the narrative.Additionally the whole movie just rides on nostalgia but doesn't really feel like star trek - way to much action and explosions with very little story and actual lines.On the other hand it's very practical since this movie kind of stands alone and does not connect very much to the previous ones.
The new, alternate-universe film saga's characters are pale reflections of their bona fide counterparts in the various Star Trek series and some of the previous films from the good old days.
All parts of the film was to my liking, the CGI and special effects, the actors and their acting, the story and script, the quirky funny jokes, the SciFi tech, the hints back to the old films and Star Trek crews, the suspension, the new characters, the villain and his brutal attacks.
There is no real element of science fiction except that these stories take place in space, which, believe it or not, is not really a prerequisite for science fiction.Science fiction should be about challenging the imagination and provoking new ideas, but Star Trek now leaves nothing to the imagination and makes it impossible to think.It is sad.
*At first i have to apologize: Sorry for the bad English, I am not a native speaker.*I am a big fan of the Star Trek Series and when I was young I loved the old series and movies.
When in 2009 the first "new" Star Trek movie arrived I was excited about the good cast and the intelligent Plot.
Star Trek Beyond from director Justin Lin, who is known for Fast and Furious, bring some good action on the big screen.
Thank Simon Pegg for bringing back what we actually love about Star Trek.Great writing and character development.
anywhere.The humor is back with that character development, the crew seems to finally fit versus going through the motions like the previous films in this arc.The action is top notch and at least has a purpose this go around (see horrible sort of re-write of Wrath of Khan).Definitely worth going to.
They have chemistry and bring so much of what made the original Star Trek great and groundbreaking.I like action movies.
I didn't need some intelligent heady deep movie like some seem to, and I think the characters in the new Star Treks fit perfectly together.
Simon Pegg and Doug Jung wrote a hell of a script with just the right balance between the action packed sequences and humour, even in the music, but there was also room for a few really nice tribute to the original Star Trek crew.
I am a big Star Trek fan, and I could sort of enjoy the first movie, the second was a torture, the third is unbearable.I really hope that the owners of the Star Trek license will not authorize another of these movies and will go for a series like TNG, DS9, VoyagerStory: 0 Characters: -10 (fake as hell) Effects: yeah, cool, but that's not what makes a good movie anymoreNo fantasy, no new ideas, artificial propaganda, boooring.
fun.The difference with the past 2 Trek movies was that unlike the original films we didn't bond with this cast over 100 or 200 episodes of slower paced TV.
I loved seeing them play a bigger role :) The best thing about the Star Trek movie is the humor.
It's just the same crew--albeit a little more mature and a little wiser--on a brand new mission.And as much as part of me wishes that it was like all the other blockbuster franchises these days, I can appreciate the solidarity.Chris Pine looks like he fits the Captain Kirk mold better than ever as he's debating whether or not he should leave the Enterprise and take a promotion as Vice Admiral--meaning he would be permanently grounded.The first 30 minutes are fairly slow, as the film is catching us up with these characters, bringing us to the point where they want us to be.Then, all of a sudden, the Enterprise ship is ambushed and all but destroyed, killing much of the crew and leaving the rest stranded on some Earth-like planet run by Krall--who's out to seek revenge on the Federation for unknown reasons.They actually happen to be very good reasons, but we don't know them until almost the end of the film.
This movie is definitely the step in the right direction for the franchise.Plan to see this several time and am already looking forward to Star Trek 4..
The movie had no huge JJ plot holes, better character development (ironically, since that's what JJ does best), no annoying lens flares, and a great many callbacks to the original series (and a couple of excellent ones to Star Trek: Enterprise).
I always liked him as an actor and I think he is playing my favourite Trek captain really well, especially in this one he is coming into his own.Have to admit Justin Lin is really showing his chops and Simon Pegg can sure write a good script.
From the characters to the dialog, and from the interpersonal interactions to the settings, this Star Trek movie effectively leads the reboot of the franchise in the right direction.
This divide was further fueled by the follow-up "Into Darkness", a loose retelling of the earlier "Wrath of Kahn", which again placed emphasis on explosions and fisticuffs over the complex tale of revenge that inspired it.Thankfully, producer Abrams and newcomer director Justin Lin may very well have finally silenced the naysayers of this rebooted Trek with the newest installment, "Star Trek Beyond." Boasting the same delightfully exhilarating action and suspense that the previous two films excelled at, and combining it with a slower narrative more focused on delivering a carefully crafted and thoughtful sci-fi plot, "Beyond" is the best of both worlds.
With the crew scattered over the planet's surface and several taken captive by the dreaded Krall, Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Scotty (Simon Pegg) and the rest of the remaining crew must band together with a new alien ally called Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) in order to save their mates and stop a devious plan to wipe out the federation.The cast is just as good as they ever have been.
It thankfully eschews the mile-a-minute twists and turns of "Into Darkness" (which did add an irritating level of convolution, even if I did enjoy it over all) and instead takes it time, making sure to let each and every scene have a purpose.Justin Lin- best known for his work on the "Fast & Furious" franchise, is handed the reigns here, and he excels at delivering both the quiet moments of contemplative character development and the eye-popping thrills.
In fact this ,the third film in the new series of Star Trek movies, feels like an extended episode from the original series.
As for the Visual Effects ,next to Ghostbusters, they are some of the best to be seen on the big screen this year and go towards creating an even greater sense of realism and once again pulling the audience in with immense ease.Fans will be pleased by this new entry into the Star Trek series, because Star Trek Beyond not only feels like a successful extended episode but the acting, story, characters, action, effects and so much more go towards creating a fun, crowd pleasing sci-fi adventure.**** <-- Four Stars.
For my money, the new star trek reboot, give to modern audience's the same feelings as the original films did for there generations.
This films most touching scene is its tribute to the original series and cast and it's a truly heartwarming scene that any Star Trek fan will truly love.
Nonetheless, this is for the most part an excellent film you must see, if you are Star Trek fan or for that matter, even if you are simply someone who likes sci fi in general.
The action is also fantastic and overall it has everything a Star Trek movie should have in my opinion.
Okay, as a lifelong Star Trek fan and not a big fan of the last movie, I had serious reservations about this one - especially as it was directed by Justin "Fast & Furious" Lin. However, credit where it's due, he made a great attempt at this, and it turned out to be good fun (and WAY better than Jar Jar Abrams' "Into Darkness" mess).
Beyond is still very much an action movie first at its core, but it finally has the heart that the others lacked to make it really feel like a Trek film (funny how replacing someone who doesn't care about the series with Simon Pegg will do that).
The rebooted Star Trek is far better than the old film version (the franchise was at an extreme low before Abrams offered to retool the intellectual property for further sales), so I guess you can be thankful that these films actually are well made, and the first outing had some real depth, or at least pathos in a handful of scenes.The latest episode, simply called "Beyond", has three things going for it: excellent color palette, outstanding visual effects work and a genuine balance of immense sci-fi spectacle and generally good cast work on-the-ground, mixing a little humor with the drama, to good effect.Now for the not-so-great part: this film has practically no plot.
To surmise, many have got it quite right, this is not the best Star Trek movie, but it is a good one.
I have been a Star Trek fan right from the start and have loved all several hundred episodes and movies, until this one!
I was a great fan of the original Star Trek series with Shatner and Nimoy.
This is the best film in the new rebooted Star Trek universe with the crew now more of a family and this love and respect for each other shines through.