Finished watching Star Trek: Beyond, directed by Justin Lin and starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Lydia Wilson, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella, John Cho and Zoe Saldana. The film opens up about three years into the Enterprise's mission to explore uncharted space as Caption James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) is beginning to have doubts about his career since his birthday is only a few days away. Once the crew dock into a newly built space station for a break Spock (Zachary Quinto) gets news of the passing of his older counterpart (Leonard Nimoy) which hits him extremely hard. While at the station Kirk applies for the vice admiral position at the station when the station receives a distress call from an approaching escape pod. The survivor (Lydia Wilson) explains what happened to her crew which causes Kirk to rally the crew back together and embark on a rescue mission only to be lead into a trap by the villainous Krall (Idris Elba) who causes the Enterprise to crash land on the nearest planet taking most of the crew as hostages while a handful of crew members miss being captured prompting the free crew members to save their friends from Krall. Overall this was a good film as it continues the franchise by giving it a lighter tone and making the film very accessible for new viewers as well by catching them up quickly at the beginning. The way the script separates the main crew of the Enterprise into pairs allows for some great character interactions with the pairs of Spock and Dr McCoy (Karl Urban) along with Scotty (Simon Pegg) and new character Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) brings some character development along with bring some laugh out loud moments. However the storyline focusing around Sulu (John Cho) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) puts more focus on to Kroll and his plan rather than the two crew members. Kroll is a very intriguing villain even though is plan is quite simple while his backstory is incredibly interesting and the longer the film runs the more interesting Kroll becomes. 7/10.
Friday 29 July 2016
Star Trek: Beyond Film Review
Finished watching Star Trek: Beyond, directed by Justin Lin and starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Lydia Wilson, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Sofia Boutella, John Cho and Zoe Saldana. The film opens up about three years into the Enterprise's mission to explore uncharted space as Caption James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) is beginning to have doubts about his career since his birthday is only a few days away. Once the crew dock into a newly built space station for a break Spock (Zachary Quinto) gets news of the passing of his older counterpart (Leonard Nimoy) which hits him extremely hard. While at the station Kirk applies for the vice admiral position at the station when the station receives a distress call from an approaching escape pod. The survivor (Lydia Wilson) explains what happened to her crew which causes Kirk to rally the crew back together and embark on a rescue mission only to be lead into a trap by the villainous Krall (Idris Elba) who causes the Enterprise to crash land on the nearest planet taking most of the crew as hostages while a handful of crew members miss being captured prompting the free crew members to save their friends from Krall. Overall this was a good film as it continues the franchise by giving it a lighter tone and making the film very accessible for new viewers as well by catching them up quickly at the beginning. The way the script separates the main crew of the Enterprise into pairs allows for some great character interactions with the pairs of Spock and Dr McCoy (Karl Urban) along with Scotty (Simon Pegg) and new character Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) brings some character development along with bring some laugh out loud moments. However the storyline focusing around Sulu (John Cho) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) puts more focus on to Kroll and his plan rather than the two crew members. Kroll is a very intriguing villain even though is plan is quite simple while his backstory is incredibly interesting and the longer the film runs the more interesting Kroll becomes. 7/10.
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