I like the first half of this movie better than the second half? Don't get me wrong, I love Jaylah and she can absolutely step on me, but the villain gets less interesting the more we get to know him and his motivation is just muddled as all heck and like OH HEY WE FINALLY DID A PLOT WHERE EARTH ISN'T THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION oh wait this big, important, magic space station that might as well be earth is threatened with destruction instead :|

Like. I like that the Enterprise is actually on a five-year mission!! And I like the attempts to humanize what that looks like. It really felt like a paradigm shift until we settled into the plot. Idk, at least having some lip service is a step.

I guess I kinda feel like for all the positive buzz there was around this, this movie is less than the sum of its parts? It felt like a course correction that coulda eventually led to bigger and better things but I'm actually still super glad this version of the franchise died a quiet death. ( )

A spaceship crew is shipwrecked.

Having a new Star Trek movie that isn't somehow fundamentally wrong is a wonderful feeling. It's not a great movie by any means: The story is just the current standard "sci-fi" action movie formula; the photography is often too dark to see what's going on (at least in my shitty local cinema); and the action scenes are a mess. But it always has its heart in the right place. Whatever faults it has, it's a real Star Trek movie.

Concept: B
Story: D
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: C
Cinematography: D
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: B

Enjoyment: B

GPA: 2.6/4 ( )

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