Star Trek: Beyond...It's getting fabulous reviews!!!
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Just have a look down at all of the tweets quoted in this articles:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_movies/star_tr...
It's almost on a par with Wrath Of Khan!
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_movies/star_tr...
It's almost on a par with Wrath Of Khan!
88% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.9/10 on IMDB. The majority of reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
Empire's review: http://www.empireonline.com/movies/star-trek-beyon...
Empire's review: http://www.empireonline.com/movies/star-trek-beyon...
6/10 from me.
It's Trek Jim but not as we know it (bar the outstandingly observed characterizations from some very talented actors).
Even though it's an alternate universe Trek there are many-many plot holes for trekkies to ponder and to point out just one, and it's not a spoiler so I won't tag it, since when did the federation have anything resembling 'Yorktown' during Kirk's time-period?
Even in the Next Gen's time the federation space ports and outposts were nowhere near that sophisticated. That was almost of 'Dyson-sphere' complexity and technological achievement. Great to look at but we've wandered away from canon more than a smidge here.
As for the film itself and the ending: Kirk riding around like a pro on a motorbike that worked perfectly and that had been adapted in almost no time at all to eject a substance that freezes behind him creating a wall to block out the bad guys as he races around an extremely uneven landscape followed by him throwing himself off the bike to meet mid-air with the heroine at exactly the same moment well, come on chaps, that's beyond poor and shows Justin Lin's preference for Fast and the Furious type outlandish action. Again, this is not Trek. Kirk, whilst an action hero, was never involved in this kinda stuff. The action scene where him and Picard teamed up when he died was more his type of fight. This has just gone off the rails now as a Trek film but not as an everyday sci-fi action film.
They tried to redress this new direction being taken by concentrating more than previously on the characters and in particular the Bones/Spock relationship but for me that didn't compensate for the lack of believability in the whole thing.
To summarise then a good evenings cinema entertainment but very-very lite on Trek lore despite it attempting to be the opposite with it's many references and nods to the various TV Series.
It's Trek Jim but not as we know it (bar the outstandingly observed characterizations from some very talented actors).
Even though it's an alternate universe Trek there are many-many plot holes for trekkies to ponder and to point out just one, and it's not a spoiler so I won't tag it, since when did the federation have anything resembling 'Yorktown' during Kirk's time-period?
Even in the Next Gen's time the federation space ports and outposts were nowhere near that sophisticated. That was almost of 'Dyson-sphere' complexity and technological achievement. Great to look at but we've wandered away from canon more than a smidge here.
As for the film itself and the ending: Kirk riding around like a pro on a motorbike that worked perfectly and that had been adapted in almost no time at all to eject a substance that freezes behind him creating a wall to block out the bad guys as he races around an extremely uneven landscape followed by him throwing himself off the bike to meet mid-air with the heroine at exactly the same moment well, come on chaps, that's beyond poor and shows Justin Lin's preference for Fast and the Furious type outlandish action. Again, this is not Trek. Kirk, whilst an action hero, was never involved in this kinda stuff. The action scene where him and Picard teamed up when he died was more his type of fight. This has just gone off the rails now as a Trek film but not as an everyday sci-fi action film.
They tried to redress this new direction being taken by concentrating more than previously on the characters and in particular the Bones/Spock relationship but for me that didn't compensate for the lack of believability in the whole thing.
To summarise then a good evenings cinema entertainment but very-very lite on Trek lore despite it attempting to be the opposite with it's many references and nods to the various TV Series.
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