| Review : |
--Redundant story line- did Kirk really have to lose the captain seat again? And the turn around to get the seat back was almost instantaneous. / --Canon errors (yes I know the timeline changed gasp)- capt pike should not have died, he should have been disabled and put in the wheelchair thing from the original serries. / --Stupid things: 1. Enterprise under the water - pressure of water is opposite from space = it would be crushed. Was it supposed to be hiding?? Oh lets try to sink a ship the size of a city under the sea, that’s far more discrete!! Why couldn't they beam down?? They beamed Spock out of the volcano oh but that couldn't work... 2. The volcano- cold fusion is not 'cold' and would not stop a volcano = stupid! Furthermore, don't they have remote control detonation devices in that time line. Going into the volcano was unnecessary. Furthermore, why did Spock not have a problem violating the prime directive? Seemed so important to him... geesh. 3. One minute khan is an enemy and hunted by all. the next minute he is back as an enemy and the back as an ally. It just was tiring. 4. The exact number of special torpedoes given to Kirk to kill khan with was 72. Wow!! The exact number of torpedoes that made khan stop his assault. Would have stopped if it had been 71 or 73. Plus, his advanced intelligence might have led him to hide his people in something that isn't supposed to be shot out of a ship and made to explode = stupid. 5. A hidden more powerful starship that has its own crew that can kick the crap out of the brand new enterprise from the first movie. Ya, where did they keep that??? -- poor character development. The characters didn't grow together at all. In the original movies/series, the characters were pals and had shall I say intimate relationships. I thought Abrams did a good job in bringing them together at the end of the first movie and the casting is great but in this movie there was no cohesiveness. It even was so bad that Scotty got fired over one disagreement. Geesh. Also, Khan had none of the charisma of the original, he simply walked about looking mad. Should have been more character development there. --pointless moments: Klingons- cool to see but not important to plot at this point Dr. Marcus (the hot blonde)- first of all, she was the biologist who worked on genesis not a weapons specialist. But her being on board because there were 'special torpedoes' on board was silly-- her undressing, while a bonus, was unneeded... /////// The movie was great in terms of action. Seems like they were going for the Star Wars/Super Hero movie model. I just feel like the great characters that we love are being pushed to be just another starwars/action hero shootem up (jumping around from platform to platform is so starwars-esk). So I give it an 'A' for entertainment a 'C-' for keeping with the ideals of startrek and science. |
