Star Trek

Day 10/192-Star Trek: Starring Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine

I had really wanted to see this when it first came out. Circumstances aligned against me as is often the case and I missed my chance. However, Sky Anytime has redeemed itself from the debacle of Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus with this sci-fi spectacular which I thought was everything a blockbuster could, and should be.

Star Trek that is, not MSvGO.

This is basically an origin story of the early days of the Enterprise, centred around James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and his rise from annoying upstart to captain material. Meanwhile the Remulons (fronted by Eric Bana) are out for revenge against Spock (Quinto) for destroying their planet.

There is also some time-travel alternate universe stuff going on (this is helmed by JJ Abrams after all) and a really pathetic almost non-attempt at a love story.


I'm aiming to keep things short on this one as I'm aiming to head out on this fine Saturday evening, and that is easy to do as this is a very straightforward film.

Spock lends himself to some great comedy with his Vulcan character trait of all logic and no emotion being perfect for deadpan gag after another and it doesn't wear thin. Chris Pine as James T. Kirk plays the cocky rookie to perfection with just the right level of humble and confidence in equal measures. Eric Bana hams it up quite nicely as Nero and Zoe Saldana gives way to some early promise to become a pretty-face in the background (albeit a very pretty one.)

All I would say is that this film suffers in its nature of being an origin story. Too many characters jammed in and not explored properly with Simon Pegg's Scotty no more than a cameo, this is somewhat of a letdown. But the other side of that is that, as was the case with Batman Begins, we could be in store for a very high quality sequel and I for one, based on the huge promise of this showing, am very excited about that.

7/10