I just finished watching the newest Star Trek film, the one by JJ Abrams, and I must say, I really did not like it. Now, while this film is now relatively old, and my review of it is relatively useless, I believe that the abstract ideas that I provide are still very valuable. In particular, movies now seem to tend toward showing a bunch of credits, maybe a pause for ten seconds for scientific babble, and back to the explosions, after which the problem is magically solved, you see a sex scene, and the main character flying away, after which, you see the credits. As much as it pains me to say it, the best part of this whole sequence, is the credits. The music that the credits provides is amazing, however, the rest of the movie fails to match up to that music.

 

First, I must point out the obvious lack of character development. During the whole film, I felt no attachment to Kirk, Spoke, or the rest of the crew, well, okay, I will make an exception for Scotty, he was amazing. I also felt some emotion for the old spoke, but that was just due to the actor, not the actual character. This seams to be a constant among many modern films, for example, in the recent creation of the movie “Angles and Demons”, based on the novel by Dan Brown, you never felt any attachment to Robert Langdon. He’s just this guy running around, from place to place, trying to find the next thing. This film is analogous, Kirk is going from place to place, getting in fights, and getting beat up, with little to nothing behind the character.

 

Next comes the science. I must admit, I am an avid Stargate fan, with the exception of Stargate Universe, which is horrid. So, I am used to have great amounts of pseudo science, after all, not everyone can write with the amount of good pseudo science that Micheal Crichton wrote with. However, movies seem to be having a diminishing amount of actual explanations for what’s happening. Spoke did provide a good enough one in this case, however, as they seem to make this a very hard core sci-fi film, a better explanation could have been provided, even there it was full of non-stop action.

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