Star Trek is a prequel to the original series and is more or less the origin story of how James T. Kirk became the captain of the Starship Enterprise.
The movie is awesome for the get-go. It starts with a flashback to an enormous Romulan ship destroying a Federation ship. The movie is not even five minutes in and it has your attention!
The film stars Chris Pine as James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock and those two as the leads were perhaps the strongest aspect of the film. Both Pine and Quinto captured the early relationship between Kirk and Spock. Since Kirk and Spock originally weren't best pals, they demonstrated that exact fact! Kirk smarts off to Spock and it's often hilarious. They played really well off each other and not to mention they both look the roles! Even though I'm focusing on only Kirk and Spock, the supporting cast is just as fantastic! Zoe Saldana was great and gorgeous as Uhura, Simon Pegg stole every scene he was in as Scotty, Anton Yelchin was good as Chekov and John Cho was cool as Sulu! But the best supporting actor award goes to Karl Urban as Bones. He was sarcastic, hilarious and his on-screen chemistry with Kirk that was just as great as Kirk and Spock's. The villain is Nero played by Eric Bana. Nero is a time-traveling Romulan with a serious grudge and he decides to travel the galaxy creating black holes. I though he was good as the villain but I felt that he was underused. I would've loved to learn more about his backstory and I wish he had more screen-time.
Quite a few people hated all of the lens flares. They said that they were either annoying or distracting. I personally thought that they looked cool. J.J. Abrams is a stylish director and the lens flares are just one of his trademarks as a director. The script is also well written. It has a great story, great characters, plenty of humor and good dialogue. The visuals really go without saying. The set pieces like the bridge of the Enterprise look stunning. The score is one of my all-time favorites. The main theme and end credits are my favorite tracks. A phenomenal score.
During the movie, there are a couple of events that happen that contradict the original Star Trek timeline. This was bound to infuriate hardcore Trekkies, but it didn't bother me since I was more of a Next Generation kind of guy.
Final Report: Star Trek is a stylish and fast-paced movie filled with great characters and spectacular visuals that will appeal to both Star Trek and Star Wars fans alike.
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