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I was a bit wary of watching this film, because 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 of cheating on a test, and during the enquiry a 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 a trap, as the Romulan Nero has travelled from the future on a mission of revenge.
Cast
Chris Pine as James T. Kirk Zachary Quinto as Spock Leonard Nimoy as Spock Prime Eric Bana as Nero Bruce Greenwood as Capt. Christopher Pike Karl Urban as Bones Zoe Saldana as Nyota Uhura Simon Pegg as Montgomery Scott John Cho as Lt. Hikaru Sulu Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov
Apart from Nimoy and Bana I’ve never heard of any of these actors, so they were an unknown quantity for me.
My Thoughts
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I quite enjoyed the film, it was better than I thought it’d be. But it relied too heavily on effects for my liking, and fell down on the acting and the storyline.
I really didn’t like the actor who played Spock, or I should say I didn’t like the way he played Spock. Spock has always been aloof and a know it all, but in this film Quinto turned him into an obnoxious brat who spat his dummy out at every turn. When Nimoy turned up his class outshone Quinto in a way I haven’t seen in a long time.
Pine was pretty good as Kirk, in fact he did a far better job that Shatner did in the early episodes of the original series. The rest of the cast did an adequate job, they were good but not great.
As far as the plot goes I thought it was pretty poor. It’s hard to go into detail without giving the story away, but I think they could have put much more thought into it and closed up some of the loop holes and quite ridiculous plot lines.
As I said they put a lot into the effects, which were good, but they’ve all been done before, so there was nothing new to be wowed with.
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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
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
frankiefromings13 29.06.2009 ·
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