For those who have not yet seen it’s greatness.
The first thing I want to tip my hat at is the amazing writing and subsequent acting. Even in the first twenty minutes it’s evident that the studio was happy for their male actors to actually show emotion. Que bromances, and manly tears. This was not over done, but rather quite subtle which made it all the more natural and relatable to me as an audience member. Particular shout outs to Pine, Quinto and Greenwood. But I can’t go into which bits here, I’ll cover it in my blow by blow spoiler filled review later. But you know what you guys did 🙂
The feels….I cannot control them.
The acting from other casts members was also wonderful in fact I cannot think of anyone to fault with shoddy acting even the extras were engaging so well done there, good work from the casting team. Especially the genius that decided to cast Benedict Cumberbatch as the dastardly john Harris, I’ve not seen him play the villain before and he was spectacular and surprisingly good at his action scenes so, well done sir. (again more in-depth details to follow)
Hello Clarice…
For those that tuned into my blog the day before yesterday you would know I am very interested in the outcome of the plot, without spoilering it. The plot was fast paced, engaging, interesting and kept me guessing all the way through (no easy feet believe me).
What I liked most was the character development throughout, in particular Kirk and Spock (duh) Spock who goes through a journey with his emotions and learning how to control them or even explode at one (amazing) scene and Kirk who learns to take responsibility for his actions and finally realizes that he has to do a lot better for his crew, he can’t just skirt by with witty one liners and great hair (as scotty puts it). It was all very good, and very believable.
Sulu’s fifth PUI (Piloting under the influence)
Speaking of believable, we saw a lot more futuristic earth then we did in the last film, future London was not so futuristic that it was unrecognizable, in fact aside from the flying ships in the air it could easily have been our capitol in a few years time, which as a londener I thought was pretty cool. The fashions as well were underplayed, more grey tone and stylish then the vulgar LSD color things in the original and early deep space nine series. Bravo wardrobe, however I felt that the starfleet dress uniforms were a wee bit drab.
That guy’s not getting paid……………………….these ladies DEFINITELY are….
monotone and serious…………..PRETTY COLORS AND SPARKLES!
There were also a number of subtle nods to the series for instance at one point McCoy is examining a tribble (which was adorbs), star fleet has a meeting at the daytrom institute and I was all like “science, androids, data!” but this daystrom had not yet been utilized for science as far as I could tell. There were a few more but the biggest nod to the series came from the newly envisioned klingons who now pierce their head ridges now apparently. They looked pretty good, I even saw a batleth or too which made me miss worf quite a bit 😦
Klingons…….awesome.
Although some pleb spelt the klingon homeworld’s name wrong: It’s Qo’nos not KRONOS, you p’tak!
So plot: Good. Design: good, loyalty to series: Good, Acting: incredible.
Banter and humor was also rife, with all of the crew having ‘a moment’ which made me chuckle to myself more then a few times. As a fan of the franchise I was very pleased with this latest development, so much so that I couldn’t write this review yesterday as I immediately came home and watched the first film and youtube the interviews still heavily in trekkie mode.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
I cannot stress this enough – even if you don’t like sci-fi, this film is amazing.
DO IT.
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