A movie review of Star Trek Into Darkness with
Direcow, Kakita and Korgath

Star Trek Into Darkness International Poster
(Credit: flickeringmyth.com)

Four years after director J.J. Abrams successfully rebooted the Star Trek universe with a fresh, young cast, he’s back again directing the first sequel and the pressure is on him to prove that he’s not a flash-in-the-pan, especially since he’s also helming Disney’s Star Wars movie franchise.

We’ll be going into some spoilery goodness below, so if for whatever reason you haven’t watched it you might want to stay away, there are some surprises in the show that we won’t spoil like a national broadsheet. We go into a lot more detail here, but long story short my feel is that Star Trek: Into Darkness (STD? STiD? STID?) is a great summer action movie that you’ll just have to leave your head and your heart checked at the door, which is a pity, given that it’s a Star Trek film. One of the few times I feel strongly enough to give a rating – 6/10.

This über Star Trek fanboy was so often distracted by the movie’s blatant plagarisation of much of the source material that it was hard to enjoy most of the movie. Still, it managed to scratch an itch four years after its predecessor, and honestly, we have seen worse Trek films. 7/10

I liked it. It gave me enough fanservice, action and character development to scratch my itch. However, plot holes and some poor character writing (and maybe tooo much fanservice) stops it from being great. 8/10.

Spoilerfest under the cut. SERIOUSLY, SPOILERS.

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