| Review : |
A grand movie for a grand franchise. I knew going in that there was time travel involved, but I half expected the usual reset button ending or something tied to the Mirror Unverse. Kinda glad it didn't have that. It paid it's respects to the original series, but allows for this new crew to have there own adventures without having any future writers and directors having to constantly look over their shoulders to see if their keeping canon. It also allows the actors to make the roles their own, thus allowing them to stray from the original actors. The running gags from the original series seemed a little forced at times, but they were needed because you got a glimpse that even though the timeline is changed, this is the crew of the Enterprise. Old Spock was dinified as ever. I think it was good that he remembered the Kirk that was his friend, and laid the groundwork so that his younger self would serve next to Kirk. Nero made a decent villian, though I wished that he was a bit more evil, not just some guy out for revenged. This film should go down as one of the better Trek outings. Hopefully, if there is a sequel, it is as good as this on. |
