| Review : |
Loud, bombastic, ultimately numbing, "Star Trek XI" set out to be the mother of all reboots but instead turned into a pale imitation of "Battlestar Galactica" that happened to have Kirk, Spock and McCoy in it. The Hotrodaprise pales in comparison to Jeffries's masterpiece whilst the "coincidental improbabilities" of everyone coming together made me cringe at every turn. There is no way in Gre'thor that CADET Kirk is going to be granted the captaincy of the Federation's flagship. NO WAY! Every military person I've spoken to has called it "impossible" or some variation thereof. The only thing that saves this movie from a straight-up zero because of that bulls**t ending is the appearance of Nimoy's Spock, the performances of Urban, Pegg, and Quinto, and the dedication to Gene & Majel. But, before I end this, I just want to say one more thing: every time-travel/alternate timeline combo story that we've had in Star Trek history has always had the characters set things back to the preferred timeline. In "XI", we have Spock PRIME not even attempting to fix it. From Archer to Janeway, they would have found some way to fix. Vulcan isn't supposed to be gone. Welcome to the Abramsverse. May the Great Bird of the Galaxy have mercy on our souls. |
