Star Trek Review

Exciting is too diminishing a word. J.J. Abram’s Star Trek is a motion picture that sends the audience on a rollercoaster that few could have expected. I saw this film in one of the smallest theatres I have been to in years and yet I still emerged from the cinema above satisfied.

The film itself sets into a new distinction of time period, not quite prequel or reboot but what can only be described as a different limb of the Star Trek tree. The story is as much creative as it is suspenseful, when the familiar crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise finds itself dealing with forces of its own future, with the intention of changing the past to a timeline of its own creation. With this, time travel and flashbacks are not only done well but fit the story specifically where it should be. Each member of the Enterprise crew is played to the best of the cast’s ability, with new faces to the old characters that fans remember and cherish. 

But one notable and famous character cannot help but tag along for the ride. Yes, Leonard Nimoy gets fully back into the Vulcan character of Spock not only to serve as a nostalgic element to the film but to provide a bridge between these two distant time frames. While the putting the two actors of Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy as the same character in a single film is a gamble, it pays off when the former indeed is able to step into the process by going beyond a simple imitation to indeed making a character of his own. 

The action of Star Trek is phenomenal with almost no scale as an exception. Emotional performances are intriguing going from spine tingling to heart breaking. J.J. Abrams is able to weave a new vision of Star Trek’s environment by balancing well on the lines of both digital and theatrical background to the setting. Visual effects are fantastic and the musical score sets into the scenes to a level near to perfection. However, to say the film was entirely a masterpiece would be “illogical” to the viewer. Even in a new body, Star Trek suffers from one of its oldest scars: techno-babbles. 

With a plot relying on futuristic technology, there are times when the dialogue trails into scientific strategies that no one understands until they are actually executed and even at such times, the viewer still remains confused. While the comedy in the film is indeed a plus, the use of it can be labelled as unnecessary to the mood of certain scenes. 

Overall, Star Trek delivers itself one of the most intricate and epic science fiction films for our generation. J.J. Abrams knows where to grab the spectators and reel them in as new fans. Old audiences are likely to walk out smiling knowing that despite some inconsistencies to the original series, by the end of the film it adds up to a creative film that retains to its source. 

After seeing this film, I can say the franchise has certainly prospered and only hope that like the original series that it lives long.