The makers of the new old Star Trek-movie follow in the recent trend of sci-fi-movies like Batman Begins, Ironman and Superman Returns, etc, in that it goes darker, deeper and more realistic than predecessors in the same genre. If of course the term 'realistic' can be applied to movies in this genre, but what i mean by that is that more work's been put into the characters so they seem more 3-D (like they could've been flesh and blood and not just scribbles in a manuscript) and that not everything just magically works out, but there are hardships too as in real life. Also the warm cuddliness of Star Trek is toned down a few notches, as with Star Trek Enterprise a few years back.
I simply love this movie. It's Star Trek thru and thru but at the same time something new (and old too as it's back to the crew of the first Star Trek series with captain Kirk, Spock and Bones) and darker. I both like and don't like the concept of a new timeline which messes up the real chain of events. It makes for many new possibilities if they decide to make more movies set with the same cast, but at the same time it makes that they don't have to keep to the Star Trek lore since this didn't really happen to OUR captain Kirk... Meddling with time creates paradoxes and possibilities aplenty and boy do they love'em on Star Trek... ;-)
Great actors too! Kirk does a good job, and so does Spock (even thou i kept seeing him as Sylar in Heroes in the beginning of the movie), Uhura, Scotty and the others. My favorite is Bones, wich is fantastically well portrayed by Karl Urban who I only really saw before as Éomer in Lord of the Rings.
Even though the story is a little thin here and there I have to strongly recommend this movie to anyone the least bit fond of Star Trek, sci-fi or space for that matter. but then I'm a trekkie so I might be biased...;-)
Rated: 5!
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