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Liger Watch. StarTrek Into Darkness SPOILERS.
12 years ago
Ok I saw the new StarTrek into Darkness movie a few nights ago and well after seeing all the praise it's been getting I felt the need to put down my review for it. Because really I think everyone is highly over rating it in a more extreme manner than they did for Iron Man 3 which I thought was alright but had a number of problems with.
Well lets start off at the beginning. We have Kirk and company on a planet attempting to covertly save a pre-warp civilization. And by pre-warp I mean these guys are wearing loincloths and holding spears. Something goes wrong and Spock is stuck in the Volcano. He's already set the device to save the planet but wants to be left behind because there's no way to save him without the natives seeing the ship. Of course Kirk like anyone with more than two brain cells saves him anyway and they fly off. Spock writes up a report about it telling the whole truth and Kirk looses the ship back to Pike. Who then later makes Kirk his first officer, who is then later killed at a meeting discussing Khan's attack on a facility, which means once again Kirk is captain of the Enterprise. All this takes place in the span of I think about 15 minutes. I just think it's stupid that he lost his command over something so trivial and even dumber that it didn't last all that long.
Now I know I'm gonna have to talk about Cumberbatch. I frankly didn't like him as Khan. I'll say this I am completely unfamiliar with anything else the actor has done so please don't tell me how good he is in something else. He seems like he is a good actor but I don't think he filled this role well. The original Khan had a presence to him that exuded experience and determination to see his goal achieved. This Khan didn't carry the same weight.
Besides that Khan isn't our main villain for much of the time. Robocop Admiral is, I can't remember the charactr's or actor's name but he played robocop. The Admiral here is your typical war monger type who somehow managed to have a Federation Dreadnaught bigger than anything else they have built in secret at Earth's door Step which makes no sense. Even less sense is made as this ship engages the Enterprise in combat so close to Earth that the Enterprise gets pulled in by it's gravity when the power goes out. You'd think there'd be at least a half dozen ships converging on that situation especially considering they had what amounted to a terror attack happen but a day or two earlier.
As to the ending. It tries to be clever by doing the scene from Wrath of Khan where Spock exposes himself to radiation to save the ship only this time the roles are reversed and we have Kirk dieing on the other side of the glass and then Spock yelling "Khaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!" This to me felt more like a rip off than paying homage to it. Like someone scooped out a cool scene and decided to use it without understanding what made it work. We just don't have as great a connection with these two characters yet to care enough despite the stellar acting going on in the scene. Besides that it lacks any kind of punch because we know Kirk won't be dead long. Anyone paying attention will know in advance that they'll use Khan's Blood to resurrect Kirk, why they didn't try using the blood of any of the other 72 augments they had in cryo on board I have no idea. So Yeah the movie ends with the Enterprise's rechristening with everyone alive and going off to do their 5 year mission.
Now the one last thing I'll add here is the lack of any familiar Star Trek species. We see Only two Vulcans which are both Spock, a bunch of Klingons who are almost all masked, and an Orion girl. All of which are familiar species fairly cheap on the Make up. But we instead get all kinds of strange new alien species all over the place with extensive make up. All because JJ thought they looked cool and ignored all the Trek species that could have been used. Considering this is a Young Federation I'd expect to see more Andorians and Tellerites around considering they were among the four first founders of the Federation.
Well that's my review for the latest Star Trek movie? What do you guys think?
Well lets start off at the beginning. We have Kirk and company on a planet attempting to covertly save a pre-warp civilization. And by pre-warp I mean these guys are wearing loincloths and holding spears. Something goes wrong and Spock is stuck in the Volcano. He's already set the device to save the planet but wants to be left behind because there's no way to save him without the natives seeing the ship. Of course Kirk like anyone with more than two brain cells saves him anyway and they fly off. Spock writes up a report about it telling the whole truth and Kirk looses the ship back to Pike. Who then later makes Kirk his first officer, who is then later killed at a meeting discussing Khan's attack on a facility, which means once again Kirk is captain of the Enterprise. All this takes place in the span of I think about 15 minutes. I just think it's stupid that he lost his command over something so trivial and even dumber that it didn't last all that long.
Now I know I'm gonna have to talk about Cumberbatch. I frankly didn't like him as Khan. I'll say this I am completely unfamiliar with anything else the actor has done so please don't tell me how good he is in something else. He seems like he is a good actor but I don't think he filled this role well. The original Khan had a presence to him that exuded experience and determination to see his goal achieved. This Khan didn't carry the same weight.
Besides that Khan isn't our main villain for much of the time. Robocop Admiral is, I can't remember the charactr's or actor's name but he played robocop. The Admiral here is your typical war monger type who somehow managed to have a Federation Dreadnaught bigger than anything else they have built in secret at Earth's door Step which makes no sense. Even less sense is made as this ship engages the Enterprise in combat so close to Earth that the Enterprise gets pulled in by it's gravity when the power goes out. You'd think there'd be at least a half dozen ships converging on that situation especially considering they had what amounted to a terror attack happen but a day or two earlier.
As to the ending. It tries to be clever by doing the scene from Wrath of Khan where Spock exposes himself to radiation to save the ship only this time the roles are reversed and we have Kirk dieing on the other side of the glass and then Spock yelling "Khaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!" This to me felt more like a rip off than paying homage to it. Like someone scooped out a cool scene and decided to use it without understanding what made it work. We just don't have as great a connection with these two characters yet to care enough despite the stellar acting going on in the scene. Besides that it lacks any kind of punch because we know Kirk won't be dead long. Anyone paying attention will know in advance that they'll use Khan's Blood to resurrect Kirk, why they didn't try using the blood of any of the other 72 augments they had in cryo on board I have no idea. So Yeah the movie ends with the Enterprise's rechristening with everyone alive and going off to do their 5 year mission.
Now the one last thing I'll add here is the lack of any familiar Star Trek species. We see Only two Vulcans which are both Spock, a bunch of Klingons who are almost all masked, and an Orion girl. All of which are familiar species fairly cheap on the Make up. But we instead get all kinds of strange new alien species all over the place with extensive make up. All because JJ thought they looked cool and ignored all the Trek species that could have been used. Considering this is a Young Federation I'd expect to see more Andorians and Tellerites around considering they were among the four first founders of the Federation.
Well that's my review for the latest Star Trek movie? What do you guys think?
Sirius_the_Wolfhound
~siriusthewolfhound
All points aside, what annoys me the most is the lack of aliens x.x IT's the subtle things that make Star Trek...Star Trek
