Advantages: 127 mins of sheer warp speed adventure. The best Star Trek ever an outstanding movie Disadvantages: Not enough of it you want more
...day that “People who like Star Trek are nerds!” The ensuing conversation brought up words like geek, weird, odd and resulting in my colleagues announcing that I am on another planet; with a black hole for a brain. It really gets on my goat when a handful of tactless people make those daft sorts of comments. A Facebook contact cheered me up saying “It’s true...but being a nerd, geek or weird is something to be proud of! Who would want to be a dim, ... ...A NERD AND… I LIKE STAR TREK” I, like millions of other people. Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those fans who swat up on the techno-babble or know specific dimensions and details, I don’t dress up as my favourite character. I have never been to a convention although I did go to a wedding once where the bride walked down the aisle to the Next Generation theme tune, the wedding party wore communication badges instead of buttonholes and flowers ...
melodysparks 18.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: exceptional Review of Star Trek
Advantages: New crew. Disadvantages: Nero is underused.
...this was going to be Star Trek 90210, and its not. As you would expect from Star Trek the plot revolves around Kirk and Spock. The film begins with the USS Kelvin encountering a space anomaly, they watch as an enormous sized, strange shaped ship appears from the event horizon. The Kelvin comes under attack with the Captain of the Kelvin being invited over to the ship that we now know as the Narada. When Nero the Captain of the renegade Romulans changes ... ...is something that fans of Star Trek have been waiting for as this originally mentioned in Trek II - The Wrath of Khan. Gone are the grey walled corridors of the Enterprise, in fact the Enterprise has never looked so good on a screen. Naturally the ship has been designed to be instantly recognisable as the Enterprise, but everything is different, the engine nacelles are bigger which to me emphasised the power of the ship, the Bridge is still a busy ...
Timbo3107 02.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: Swift plot development; suitable for nearly all ages. Disadvantages: Terrible plot; unconvincing characters; indifferent acting.
...been J J Abram’s new Star Trek movie, which has been widely regarded as having successfully brought this iconic franchise into a new century and to a new generation. The reviews have been overwhelmingly positive – Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post wrote a prayer of thanks to the ‘Lord of Star Trek’ for a movie that ‘has miraculously resurrected a wheezing but beloved and still relevant franchise’; the Daily Mail salutes ‘the most outstanding prequel ... ...beautiful rebirth’ of Star Trek. The reviewers on Ciao so far give the film a full 5 stars, and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) gives it 8.4/10 from over 75,000 ratings. Against this tidal wave of enthusiasm stands me. I don’t even have a sidekick to help me. I must alone, heroically save the world from its collective madness. How can this film be viewed as outstanding? Did we watch different versions? ‘Fun’ or ‘entertaining’ I might grant. ‘A ...
MikeOCarroll 28.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: Very good effects, cast, dialogue, packed with action Disadvantages: Scenes copied from Star Wars, and may seem too cliché with some of the cheesy scenes
=== Star Trek: The film (2009) === I admit I am a massive fan of TV shows rooted in the science-fiction genre so it was no surprise that I was going to see this at the cinema. I honestly was not expecting much after seeing ten previous predecessors' failures to create a successful film that was popular across all the demographics. What I mean is that the Star Trek films within the last 20 years may have only been popular with the older generation; ... ...the most famous characters in Star Trek: Spock. The film was directed by J.J Abrams; who has several episodes of Lost and Alias under his belt and a few more as a producer. It was obvious that it was one of his big first directive projects and I can honestly say he has excelled himself and has gone much beyond my expectations of this film. ''' ===- What is this film all about? -=== ''' The film was set to be a prequel to the first TV series of Star ...
Annallon 23.07.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: A Marvel in Sci-Fi Entertainment, the best Trek yet Disadvantages: Trekkies will have thier own nitpicks, but I'm not a trekkie
**************************************************************************************** TITLE: Star Trek RATING: ***** CAST: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, Ben Cross, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Morrison, Rachel Nichols, Tyler Perry, voice of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. DIRECTOR: J.J. Abrams SCREENWRITERS: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman STUDIO: Paramount ... ...126 Minutes RATED: PG-13 (US) & 12A (UK); contains sci-fi violence and fight scenes, including brief sexuality and minor language. THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: Friday, May 8, 2009 OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.StarTrek.com *************************************************************************************** "James T. Kirk was a great man....but that was another life!" --- Nero Part I: Resurrection & Vindication It's been only an hour since I left the cinema, ...
eve6kicksass 09.05.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: Okay if you don't think too hard about it Disadvantages: Plot holes and poor acting
...I really enjoyed the later Star Trek films, and wasn’t sure a prequel was a good idea. === Synopsis === The story follows James Kirk from the events of his birth and his yearly years, but mainly concentrates on his first voyage on the Starship Enterprise. It also follows the life of Spock and how he was an outcast both on Vulcan and Earth due to his mixed parentage. Spock as we all know also ends up on the Enterprise. Early in the film Kirk is accused ... ...distress call is received from Vulcan and Starfleet respond by sending off the fleet to investigate. Despite the fact Kirk is suspended he sneaks on the Enterprise as it heads off. The ship is being run by all new recruits apart from the captain, so it sets off later than the rest of the fleet as Sulu forgets to engage the dampners and basically tries to fly with the handbrake on. The mistake is a lucky escape as the distress call from Vulcan is ...
Fiver29 02.09.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: Big screen treat Disadvantages: Not for DVD
...player, also the case with Star Trek, and unless you have a huge TV or Blue-Ray then the modern action movie suffers in translation. Star Trek is quite simply one of those big budget movies you have to see at the cinema to get any real buzz from it, director JJ Abrahams all about movies that enjoy using the entire screen space. It's all very frustrating wandering what you can't see in the top left hand corner of your wide-screen DVD screen that the ... ...a bar hitting on female Star Fleet cadets after dropping out of Star Fleet officer school, taking a shine to sexy young communications officer Uhura (Zoë Saldana), a fist fight soon ensuing. But he's soon talked around to mend his ways and on the next shuttle up to Starfleet head quarters, Capt. Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), a friend of his father, his new mentor. The concurrent storyline is that of Nero (Eric Bana), the captain of a Romulan ...
thedevilinme 25.11.2009 (19.12.2009)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: Fantastic Action and spills, the effects are amazing and will pull in new fans Disadvantages: None
Star Trek.... well... first of all... I have not even seen the tv series (original or the next frontier) or have i seen ANY movies. (well 1/4 of a movie and i'll say.... i got parts of the movie i saw but not much (FYI it was Star Trek: Nemesis).
Moving to my point....
Star Trek....
Was....
The Worst film if you dispised all actions and thrillers, but one of the BEST films of the decade if you love actions and thrillers like me!
I was actually ... ...have not seen anything of Star Trek, you better get to the cinema and watch it before it leaves or you will regret waiting for 4-5 months for the DVD. The special effects are amazing and it stays true to the series, and I mean that, it stays true. I didn't see the series but i watched Bring Back... Star Trek, and I learned many things from it, so I KNOW it stays true :)
I am really looking forward to the sequel and i strongly believe that Star Trek ...
goku1st 26.05.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: A brand new storyline with definite tributes to the original Trek Disadvantages: Not enough Nero!!!
Being married to a Star Trek fan isn't easy. In fact it's blooming hard!! I could swear sometimes I know more about it than he does and it's scary! So to find out there was a new Star Trek movie coming out brought a sigh of "not another one" from me and a lot of excitement from himself. And as soon as tickets were available to order from the cinema, I had to get them in advance for the first night of showings as he decided it just would not do to ... ...and hubby donned his precious star trek t-shirt for the momentous occasion. Thank goodness he didn't want to dress up as a character - I don't think I would have left the house! And so we went to the cinema and waited to be amazed by what was hyped up to be one of the biggest movies of this year. And I have to admit that I was not disappointed in the least - in fact, I blooming well enjoyed the movie so much I'm looking forward to getting it on DVD ...
bonsi6337 03.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: Great cast, brilliant action and special effects to keep you glued to your seat Disadvantages: Quick paced so I found it a little difficult to keep up with
...saying that I've never watched Star Trek before, don't really know the storyline and have never been interested in it, so I can't relate the film to the series and will just be giving my opinion of it as a non-Star Trek fan. However, not being a fan, when I first saw the trailer, I knew that this was definitely something that I wanted to see. The film begins with James Kirk's father on the Enterprise and straight away there is an array of action ... ...For any fans of Star Trek, the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy, made a few appearances in the film playing an older Spock from the future. This film shows all the crew of the Enterprise coming together and I can see how this would be an interesting thing to watch for any fans and I hear from other's that this was done well and that all the casting was brilliant in relation to the original actors. For both Star Trek fans and non-Star Trek fans, either ...
frankiefromings13 29.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Trek
Advantages: Good plot, strong cast, delightful nods at Star Trek mythology Disadvantages: As a villian Nero is rather one-dimensional. Not Bana's strongest performance.
The news of a new Star Trek film was greeted with great excitement on my part and mild enthusiasm on the part of my husband (He's just not a film person. Mild enthusiasm is pretty big for him). Both of us were raised with Trekkie fathers and so, while not being the convention attending type, have a great sense of nostalgia when it comes to Star Trek. Also, anything that offered the possibility of redeeming Captain Kirk for me (I'm Canadian, Shatner ... ...homage to the long established Star Trek mythology and heading out into bold new territory. It is an action film with enough explosions and fighting to keep anyone entertained, but it manages to explore and develop characters at the same time. It was refreshing to find such a balance this summer! Portions of the film are a little slow as Abrams struggles to introduce all of the crew that Star Trek fans expected, but this was really one of my favourite ...
Mountainlilly 26.06.2009
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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