Absolutely Fantastic

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I am a lifelong Star Trek fan. I love the two JJ Abrams films and enjoyed the third part. This film, like the first one, is not like Star Trek. It does, however, understand the dynamics of the characters. This films work like more action oriented episodes of the show such as "the doomsday machine" or "balance of terror". Those looking for heavier themes like those featured in "The City on the Edge of Forever" should look elsewhere. This film is one the greatest adrenaline rush thrill rides I've ever seen, along the lines of an Indiana Jones film. Cumberbatch and Weller work outstandingly as the villians. Pine, Quinto and the rest of the cast do and outstanding job and act as the real backbone of the story once again. This film deserves another chance and never should be lumped in with the majority of bad reboots. This is one of the good ones.

You probably either love or hate the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies. There's little in between. However, this second movie in the new series is the one that is clearly objectively the worst. Not only is there hardly any coherent story at all. It is also obvious that most of the elements where just shoved in for the sake of providing vague references to earlier movies for those who don't really remember them. Maybe the best example is the moment where Khan reveals his name in a big build-up, a reveal that has absolutely no meaning within the movie because neither do the characters know Khan by that point nor has the name any significance beyond that. The actual plot of the movie goes something like that: There is a Starfleet admiral who who is plotting to start a war with the Klingons. There is a super soldier from the past who the admiral is unfreezing in order to let him fight against the Klingons but refuses. And there is the Enterprise crew who is trying to stop both of them. What sounds like something that could somehow work never manages to become a coherent story. The plans and intentions of the characters just don't make sense and there isn't any reveal that the plot is building up to. "Into Darkness" is another movie that doesn't seem to be based on an actual story but had its thin plot being thought out more or less after the fact.But the worst part about this movie is the fact that it uses the name of a classic brand of mature and enlightened television for a downright regressive effort. There are no real motives in this movie; no different approaches to complex problems or questions; no real despair and no constraints of the human condition. No conversations about incomprehensible phenomena or dilemmas. Instead, the entire movie is solely about who has the strongest punch, the biggest starship and the most snappy line. These means are the only ways to make any impact on the course of events. And whenever the movie gets too boring a starship is dropped on a city full of people to wake the audience up again. This is not even treating the audience like children. Because children are entertained by creativity, richness, emotions and heroism. This is treating us as creatively deprived and apathetic.What causes utter dismay is the sheer imbalance of expensive visual effects, the huge cast of high-class actors and rich movie sets on the one hand and the total absence of a good premise, capable writing or even a basic passion for telling a story on the screen and carry your audience along on the other hand. In fact this movie is one of the instances that make you think of all the great movies that could have been made if you had split the budget between five or even ten passionate filmmakers.

Star Trek Into Darkness: Movie Review. Star Trek Into Darkness is an exciting and intriguing science fiction action film with cinematic story telling, along with gripping visuals. character design and dazzling effects. The direction is good and the performances are great. Benedict Cumberbatch and Chris Pine, both are excellent in their respective characters and for me,especially Benedict Cumberbatch totally nailed it. Benedict Cumberbatch is one my most favourite actor it was like a treat to me to see him in a negative characterization. And the scene in the film and one of the best and most awesome character moments in the film when he says: Quote:"Kirk: Who the hell are you? Khan: A remnant of a time long past. Genetically engineered to be superior so as to lead others to peace in a world at war.and John Harrison: I am better. Kirk: At what? John Harrison: Everything."These moments gives me chills every time I see the film. Rest of the cast and characters are also good in their respective roles and their characterization.The movie has some unnecessary scenes and the feels little rushed at certain points. There is lack of emotional depth and intensity in some dramatic scenes and some supporting characters are sidelined. But, all over Star Trek Into Darkness is a fantastic film. (Please Note: That This Review represent only my professional point of view and my personal honest opinion about the film, and does not represent others. Thank You).

I thought this movie was good when I first watched it, but as I thought about it the next day I realized that it makes no sense. Captain Kirk holds Dr. Who the "prisoner" on his ship and protects him because he believed the prisoner's lie, and instead of negotiating logically with the star fleet captain, the star fleet captain opens fire on him...They end up forming an "alliance" to board the star fleet's ship and overthrow them. But then, the prisoner becomes hostile and turns on Captain Kirk. In the end, the prisoner takes control of the supership (instead of Kirk assuming control of the superior ship) and Kirk finds a clever way to destroy the super ship with the prisoner on it...So in the end, both ships were destroyed and the star fleet captain killed (along with his crew and daughter, I think. I don't remember because I fell asleep at some point). And ultimately the prisoner had evil intentions as well! So Captian Kirk essentially made the worst decision he could have made in bargaining with a prisoner and jeopardized the lives of thousands of crew members for an unnecessary and pointless cause (believing a lie). Then he is heralded as some sort of hero, when he could have obeyed his superior's orders and all of this could have been adverted!Of course, this is never addressed in the movie, and instead there is a long and sobby vaccum-chamber scene. I just hated all the slow gushy scenes in this movie and the close-ups of that actor's face all the time. It's like the movie was constructed for women to watch... young women.I'm a fan of science and science fiction though, so I still "enjoyed" this.