Not As We Know It
Star Trek
Needless to say at fightrunne towers we were never that excited about this one as like most people we suffered from Trek overload with Next Gen/DS9/Voyager/Enterprise beating us into submission with their blandness and just all round boredom factor 9. So when Lost/Cloverfield writer JJ Abrams announced he was going to re-boot the franchise it was met with a “huh so what?” kind of reaction.
So this movie takes us back to the Early days of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, Uhura, Checkov and Scotty. We see the academy days and first mission of the young crew through our new fresh faced cast. Now I refuse to go into plot here as to be fair it stinks and makes little sense when you give it a second look, it would fry Spock’s logic centres. Needless to say its some malarkey involving time travel and Old Spock.
So the script and plot are weak , does anything Boldly save the grand daddy of SF from its big screen re-birth?
Yes.
That being the acting becuase the casting here is so spot on its spooke how close this young bunch nail the characters whilst bringing something new. Praise has to go first to Karl Urban as Bones McCoy whilst maybe not having the physical appearence the perfmance is uncanny and he delivers some of the films funniest moments. Next up for a mention is Anton Yelchin as Checkov and he has to be one to wactch for the future. The new Captain Kirk also hits the ground running as a womanising, drinking fighting alpha male type that we all imagined the young Kirk to be so another tip of the hat to Chris Pine. The rest of the cast like i say all fill their roles perfectly and there is no feeling of graves being tread on.
So ovrall? this is a light , fun movie and a perfect set-up for some more meaty adventures for this new crew. Ignore the terrible plot and just enjoy it for the fun ride it is
Rating – 7/10
A lightweight story saved by some great acting.