Review of Star Trek Beyond Full Movie: The Lone voluntarily follow the code of conduct as severe as in force at the hotel. They can fraternize, or dance without touching, but it's there. "Red Kiss" Two of them have surgical dressings on his face, after being caught in an embrace and punished with something called David takes acting out to the lonely, and he falls in love with one of them (Rachel Weiss). Our hero, able to lose heart in the hotel, and then lost in the only place where the loss is considered a crime: the irony could not be cuter.
In the city where David and his wife to avoid suspicion, posing with friends, sharing turning a kiss, and even then it is said to not overdo it. Wherever you go, means laws that trap. This is a serious accusation, and for all the pranks he played on our assumptions, filled with serious intentions. No art, director, and writer is more subtle and more difficult to remain calm when the world still despises. Swift did, and so did Buñuel, but some current board members, as well and Todd Soloed, the effort. What's more, there is nothing trivial or inexpensive to collect goal. "Teeth of the Dog" (2009), the movie release, he tried to dismantle the nuclear family; "the Alps" (2011) led to the death, not less, and the culture of punishment, the character is hired to impersonate the dead because of the mourners; and now we have which is a part of love.
Strengths: There's a lot to like about this movie. Visually, it's breathtaking. Every single scene looks great, from smaller ones to the big, action pieces being done very well. That was expected, though, so what really made the film work was the character development and the cast. Chris Pine (James T. Kirk) isn't someone I enjoy much outside of this franchise, but he's very good here. Zachary Quinto (Spock) steals the show. He absolutely becomes Spock, nailing all the gestures of Leonard Nimoy (who also gets an awesome cameo), while doing enough to make it his own.
Quinto does great exploring Spock's duality of being half human, half Vulcan. Watching the relationship between Kirk and Spock grow is the best thing about the movie. Zoe Saldana (Uhura) continues to be the ultimate geek girl, doing very well in another sci-fi movie. Even the people with smaller roles like Karl Urban (Leonard McCoy), John Cho (Hikaru Sulu), Simon Pegg (Montgomery Scott), and Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov) are all good. Going back to Nimoy's cameo, I also got a kick out of seeing Chris Hemsworth and Jennifer Morrison in the opening scene. A favorite scene of mine was the big fight scene on the drill involving Kirk and Sulu. JJ Abrams was the right man to helm this reboot, just like he was for Star Wars Episode VII.
Weaknesses: With so much focus on developing the main characters who would stick around for the franchise, the villain got pushed aside a bit. Eric Bana (Nero) was mostly fine in the role, but unspectacular. Nero was a solid choice, though he felt more like a plot device than an actual character. He had none of the flairs that Benedict Cumberbatch brought as the sequel's villain. He also goes down surprisingly easily near the end. For me, the relationship between Spock and Uhura felt a bit rushed here. It was the one aspect of character development among the heroes that didn't get fleshed out enough.
Overall: Growing up, I was always a Star Wars kid and mostly avoided Star Trek, even though my dad loved it. This reboot made me a Star Trek fan thanks to the great characters/cast and a well-paced story with some great emotional moments. It's one of the best reboots I've ever seen.
I think people were more attracted to the idea that this film was not the old Star Trek; it looked and felt new. Many critics argue that it was more akin to George Lucas' space-opera style Star Wars as opposed to Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi vision of Trek. With this newer, more attractive look, the general positive consensus seems more based on the anti-retro factor rather than whether or not the storytelling quality was good. Abrams shot the film to look like an amusement park attraction. And I have no doubt that attraction would be fun in a 10-minute time frame. But after 126 minutes, the circling cameras, jerky movements, and overemphasized effect of what it feels like to ride the Enterprise becomes exhausting for the viewer's eyes. It's also the laziest writing effort for a sci-fi imaginable.
A cast of known characters, representing over 40 years of pop-culture significance, form loose bonds and ascend ranks quickly; Star Fleet must have the worst military ethics in the galaxy, because if you're loud enough you can be on board and operating the docile Enterprise in no time. The story itself is mostly delivered through rushed dialogue. Comic-relief is cheesy, for kids, and very yesterday. An actual Russian played a Russian character and sounded like he was doing a fake accent. Plot holes are uncountable, but the worst and most obvious being the story's central turning point when Spock relinquishes command of Enterprise to his rival James Kirk because of code 619, in which a captain can no longer perform duties upon emotional ties to the mission; Spock lost his mother to Nero, did all the writers forget Kirk lost his father to Nero?!
In Star Trek the Vulcan apocalypse is caused by the actions of one man and the vengeance directed his way: Spock. The 2009 release of Star Trek is most definitely one of the most Spock centric movies to date. It used Time travel to bring fanboy dreams true and keep the original series both intact and completely cannon while introducing a new timeline and thus a new cannon for the current cinematic stories All it took was a Romulan miner bent on vengeance to kick off the events of this fascinating twist on the Star Trek origin redux.
At the beginning of the film, a Romulan mining vessel emerges from a black hole directly in front of a Federation ship. This is the first shift in the timeline as James T Kirk's father sacrifices himself to save the evacuees including his wife and newborn son. This led to a slightly more rebellious young Kirk, though certainly not a less arrogant one. You may wonder why I call this the Spock centric one when it clearly starts with Kirk's birth. But it starts with Kirk as an establishing point for how the universe has changed because of his father's sacrifice. The movie continues showing Kirk as the same rule breaking hothead he is in the original series with a penchant for falling for green women. That gives nice continuity nods to watchers of the Star Trek original series and assures them that in a new timeline it is still the character's we know and love.
They introduce young Spock as well. Though not necessarily as expected. We see him being bullied over his half-human status. We see him break from accepted Vulcan behavior and pummel a Vulcan because he dared insult his mother. It was entertaining to see him become a pissed off administrator when Kirk cheats to beat the unbeatable scenario. The fan placation and nods were strong within this movie. Though few fans even dreamed of a Spock-Uhura relationship it was a sweet and touching change. This definitely was an indicator of the shift in the timeline though.
Old Spock's introduction was certainly an interesting way to solidify that the old series still exists. By having Spock going back in time after he tries and fails to save the Romulan home planet from a supernova and then accidentally dragging the Romulan ship with him, he sets in action the events of the film. It greatly amused me though that Old Spock was able to bring equations from the future to help out the young Kirk and Scotty. He again made the plot of the movie move forward, though his implications that paradoxes would ensue should Young Spock ever know of him were made funnier when he actually went to meet his younger counterpart and no such thing happened. Spock's very presence and existence confirmed that both the movie and the old series canon still exist, though they are literally separate timelines as time travel is involved. The sympathy for his emotional hurt as the Romulan takes his vengeance and Both Spocks watch their home planet implode is a little too poignant though.
The antagonist that implodes the planet, a bitter captain of a Romulan Mining vessel from the future, is so motivated by his hatred for Spock's inability to save his planet that he waits for twenty years for Old Spock to show up. Granted Captain Nemo could not put into action he implode the planet plan of vengeance until he had the Mcguffin of the Red Matter in Old Spock's ship, which we never do find out how he found out about. But perhaps he was just waiting to take his vengeance on Spock and incorporated the Red Matter into his plans after he captures the Old Ambassador. Nemo carries the air of a Romulan that has lost everything and is barely containing the pure rage and hatred he has for the one who did this to him. It creates a strong screen presence for the antagonist.
That tightly controlled rage directly paralleled young Spock throughout the movie. The snark with which he refuses the Vulcan council at the mere mention of his 'disadvantage' of being only half Vulcan as well as the rage Spock shows when he breaks on the bridge leading to him almost choking Kirk out are signs of the anger that burns deep inside the young Vulcan leading him to make split-second decisions just as it led to him beating someone senseless in his younger years. Spocks journey through the movie shows him trying to avoid favoritism with Uhura, though she takes none of that and demands to be assigned to the USS Enterprise. When in command of the ship it is Spock who endangers himself to rescue his parents and the culture council of Vulcan and it is young Spock who literally watches his mother fall to her death. This has an even more painful emotional impact than Old Spock watching his planet disappear from the surface of another planet. It is Spock coming to terms with the fact that Kirk makes a good captain that leads to the conclusion and final take down of Captain Nemo.
So as it was Old Spock who was responsible for the plot moving along, young Spock was responsible for it coming to a satisfying conclusion. Star Trek was a fascinating journey into a new timeline and a lovely new age of special effects for the Star Trek Franchise. Spock and Spock did an amazing job at the center of this film motivating and inspiring friend and rival alike. If there is anything else I could ask of this franchise it is of course that it will, "Live long and prosper."
Quinto does great exploring Spock's duality of being half human, half Vulcan. Watching the relationship between Kirk and Spock grow is the best thing about the movie. Zoe Saldana (Uhura) continues to be the ultimate geek girl, doing very well in another sci-fi movie. Even the people with smaller roles like Karl Urban (Leonard McCoy), John Cho (Hikaru Sulu), Simon Pegg (Montgomery Scott), and Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov) are all good. Going back to Nimoy's cameo, I also got a kick out of seeing Chris Hemsworth and Jennifer Morrison in the opening scene. A favorite scene of mine was the big fight scene on the drill involving Kirk and Sulu. JJ Abrams was the right man to helm this reboot, just like he was for Star Wars Episode VII.
Overall: Growing up, I was always a Star Wars kid and mostly avoided Star Trek, even though my dad loved it. This reboot made me a Star Trek fan thanks to the great characters/cast and a well-paced story with some great emotional moments. It's one of the best reboots I've ever seen.
I think people were more attracted to the idea that this film was not the old Star Trek; it looked and felt new. Many critics argue that it was more akin to George Lucas' space-opera style Star Wars as opposed to Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi vision of Trek. With this newer, more attractive look, the general positive consensus seems more based on the anti-retro factor rather than whether or not the storytelling quality was good. Abrams shot the film to look like an amusement park attraction. And I have no doubt that attraction would be fun in a 10-minute time frame. But after 126 minutes, the circling cameras, jerky movements, and overemphasized effect of what it feels like to ride the Enterprise becomes exhausting for the viewer's eyes. It's also the laziest writing effort for a sci-fi imaginable.
A cast of known characters, representing over 40 years of pop-culture significance, form loose bonds and ascend ranks quickly; Star Fleet must have the worst military ethics in the galaxy, because if you're loud enough you can be on board and operating the docile Enterprise in no time. The story itself is mostly delivered through rushed dialogue. Comic-relief is cheesy, for kids, and very yesterday. An actual Russian played a Russian character and sounded like he was doing a fake accent. Plot holes are uncountable, but the worst and most obvious being the story's central turning point when Spock relinquishes command of Enterprise to his rival James Kirk because of code 619, in which a captain can no longer perform duties upon emotional ties to the mission; Spock lost his mother to Nero, did all the writers forget Kirk lost his father to Nero?!
In Star Trek the Vulcan apocalypse is caused by the actions of one man and the vengeance directed his way: Spock. The 2009 release of Star Trek is most definitely one of the most Spock centric movies to date. It used Time travel to bring fanboy dreams true and keep the original series both intact and completely cannon while introducing a new timeline and thus a new cannon for the current cinematic stories All it took was a Romulan miner bent on vengeance to kick off the events of this fascinating twist on the Star Trek origin redux.
At the beginning of the film, a Romulan mining vessel emerges from a black hole directly in front of a Federation ship. This is the first shift in the timeline as James T Kirk's father sacrifices himself to save the evacuees including his wife and newborn son. This led to a slightly more rebellious young Kirk, though certainly not a less arrogant one. You may wonder why I call this the Spock centric one when it clearly starts with Kirk's birth. But it starts with Kirk as an establishing point for how the universe has changed because of his father's sacrifice. The movie continues showing Kirk as the same rule breaking hothead he is in the original series with a penchant for falling for green women. That gives nice continuity nods to watchers of the Star Trek original series and assures them that in a new timeline it is still the character's we know and love.
They introduce young Spock as well. Though not necessarily as expected. We see him being bullied over his half-human status. We see him break from accepted Vulcan behavior and pummel a Vulcan because he dared insult his mother. It was entertaining to see him become a pissed off administrator when Kirk cheats to beat the unbeatable scenario. The fan placation and nods were strong within this movie. Though few fans even dreamed of a Spock-Uhura relationship it was a sweet and touching change. This definitely was an indicator of the shift in the timeline though.
Old Spock's introduction was certainly an interesting way to solidify that the old series still exists. By having Spock going back in time after he tries and fails to save the Romulan home planet from a supernova and then accidentally dragging the Romulan ship with him, he sets in action the events of the film. It greatly amused me though that Old Spock was able to bring equations from the future to help out the young Kirk and Scotty. He again made the plot of the movie move forward, though his implications that paradoxes would ensue should Young Spock ever know of him were made funnier when he actually went to meet his younger counterpart and no such thing happened. Spock's very presence and existence confirmed that both the movie and the old series canon still exist, though they are literally separate timelines as time travel is involved. The sympathy for his emotional hurt as the Romulan takes his vengeance and Both Spocks watch their home planet implode is a little too poignant though.
The antagonist that implodes the planet, a bitter captain of a Romulan Mining vessel from the future, is so motivated by his hatred for Spock's inability to save his planet that he waits for twenty years for Old Spock to show up. Granted Captain Nemo could not put into action he implode the planet plan of vengeance until he had the Mcguffin of the Red Matter in Old Spock's ship, which we never do find out how he found out about. But perhaps he was just waiting to take his vengeance on Spock and incorporated the Red Matter into his plans after he captures the Old Ambassador. Nemo carries the air of a Romulan that has lost everything and is barely containing the pure rage and hatred he has for the one who did this to him. It creates a strong screen presence for the antagonist.
That tightly controlled rage directly paralleled young Spock throughout the movie. The snark with which he refuses the Vulcan council at the mere mention of his 'disadvantage' of being only half Vulcan as well as the rage Spock shows when he breaks on the bridge leading to him almost choking Kirk out are signs of the anger that burns deep inside the young Vulcan leading him to make split-second decisions just as it led to him beating someone senseless in his younger years. Spocks journey through the movie shows him trying to avoid favoritism with Uhura, though she takes none of that and demands to be assigned to the USS Enterprise. When in command of the ship it is Spock who endangers himself to rescue his parents and the culture council of Vulcan and it is young Spock who literally watches his mother fall to her death. This has an even more painful emotional impact than Old Spock watching his planet disappear from the surface of another planet. It is Spock coming to terms with the fact that Kirk makes a good captain that leads to the conclusion and final take down of Captain Nemo.
So as it was Old Spock who was responsible for the plot moving along, young Spock was responsible for it coming to a satisfying conclusion. Star Trek was a fascinating journey into a new timeline and a lovely new age of special effects for the Star Trek Franchise. Spock and Spock did an amazing job at the center of this film motivating and inspiring friend and rival alike. If there is anything else I could ask of this franchise it is of course that it will, "Live long and prosper."
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