Star Trek Into Darkness Review

This is one Star Trek movie that all fans must watch and very likely will garner plenty of new followers, too! The flow of the whole movie makes one used to the series and movies at home with plenty of action that the younger generation seeks.

Chris Pine is just awesome as the young hot headed Captain Kirk with a heart and this new Spock is simply one to behold as he struggles with his half human side of things. No movie should go without its villain and here we have one that’s really cool with super human strength… and those set of eyes stare deep into your soul.

Meanwhile, the story starts off with Kirk breaking the Prime Directive in many ways trying to save a civilisation about to be destroyed by a erupting volcano and then some. After being warmed up by this, the story slows down just a wee bit, introducing the ruthless but highly intelligent and super human (hint, hint?) villain John Harrison that essentially acts alone as a one man terrorist that could work wonders.

After that, the movie goes full steam ahead and occasionally weaves in a bit of reminders to the original universe (remember that this is a sequel to the 2009 reboot that took us to an alternate universe with two Spocks and a destroyed Vulcan home world?) so that long time fans will have a sense of nostalgia…

This movie stands well on its own. That being said, for the full experience, I’d recommend watching at least the first few original movies and the 2009 one before this.

Looking for an action sci-fi? 3/5
An old Star Trek fan? 3/5 (you may not agree with too much action sequences compared to the originals)
New Star Trek fan? 4/5
Coming for the story? 3/5
The acting? 4/5
The ending? 4/5

Let me leave you with the trailer for those that’ve not seen the movie and for those that have, you’d probably want to watch it again anyway!