Fresh and Exciting

The first must-see film of the year.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Star Trek Beyond is a very generic blockbuster-type film. The effects and CGI are okay and the performances are fine (though some of the accents are dodgy - looking at you Scotty!) and it doesn't embarrass itself too much, but plot felt unfocused. My main gripe, however, is the lack of heart. Some of the recent Star Trek films have been great, and Star Trek: Discovery is a great series, but Beyond fails to pull you in in the same way. It doesn't speak to overarching themes, or make you feel proud, or excited, or even really feel anything at all. It's generic and dull and even feels a touch unrehearsed and underwritten. I would say watch it, but make sure you've got your ipad with you on the sofa so you can play some games or something too, during the dull bits.

TEDIOUS. Simon Peg is the writer and star treck Scotty, wrote himself a bigger role the character deserved , and a very boring script for a star treck. Very disappointed . see Wrath of Khan instead.

The combination of Justin Lin and Simon Pegg seem like the antithesis of who should write and direct a Star Trek movie. Pegg is someone who has always reveled in cliché and bad plotting, often for comedic effect. Unfortunately for this film it just made it comically bad. The whole script for the first half could probably be written on two sides of A4 and 50% of that would be exclamations as various crew dodge overblown CGI. A large part of the middle section of the film is a very dull space battle.The movie follows the formulaic good guys vs alien bad guy (why do all these movies feel the need to do this? can't something different or more nuanced be thought of?) I can't think of any major plot holes, but the plot is so paper thin it would be impossible to put a hole in something so one dimensional.The cast are all good although Pegg writes himself a much larger part than his character or acting ability deserve. I didn't expect much from this movie after seeing the previous two Star Trek movies, but I was still disappointed.

The original Star Trek was a 3-year TV Series. These big budget extravaganzas cost hundreds of millions as evidenced by the 5 movie studio's logos we have to sit through before the actual movie starts. Most of the action does not take place on the Enterprise the crew's penchant for destroying trillion dollar vessels seeming to continue as does Scotty's ability to get ancient relics back into space. Simon Pegg who plays Montgomery Scott had a hand in writing this one. Kirk, Bones and Spock are the essential trio and we learn of the death of Nimoy both in the script and in a memorial in the credits which also mention Anton on a first name basis only. The ability to survive space exploration does not extend to surviving old age or wonky earth technology. As the saying goes it blows up real good and in the movies sound still manages to travel through space.