review by Al Todorovic
The new Star Trek movie with Captain Kirk aboard the Enterprise is great, a tour de force.
It’s set in space with rocking spaceships blasting around the galaxy. Lasers and aliens and bullshit. The best scene in the movie is from the trailer, when they’re skydiving. Kirk and Sulu land on a thousand foot high space-drill and get into a fist fight with a few romulan bozos.
Trying it all fresh instead of dusting off the seventies crew is sweet. These characters are great: the fearless annoying skipper, the straight-laced lieutenant, the drunken doctor, a hot chick and a scottish, asian and russian archtype. It’s not a Batman Begins style new beginning where the past is erased, this is actually a paralel-blah blah.
It’s way less boring then other trek stuff, but the first half hour is still pretty boring. After that it picks up. Lots of fan stuff, Captain Christopher Pike begins as the commanding officer of the Enterprise and Leonard Nimoy is in it as future Spock.
I saw it twice in a row opening day and I haven’t done that since Spiderman 2.
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