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Reviewed By: Lord High Rikonian ( 5/22/2013 1:03:30 PM)
Rating: 4.00 zombie tribbles
Genre: Sci fi franchise flick
Starring: Chris Pine, Sylar, Sherlock, Shaun of the Dead, Harold, Robocop
Plot: I liked the first Trek reboot flick, despite its' problems. But this movie is much much better.
Benedict Cumberbatch is awesome, as expected (especially the voice, it's like a young Alan Rickman as a Kryptonian Terminator from Hell). We get Kirk vs. Cumberbatch, as expected. We get Kirk and Spock's humorous interections, as expected. We get visually stunning fights, crashes, explosions, and stunts, as expected.
But we get more. We get a glimpse at life on 23rd century Earth, which makes the stakes of the film seem more important, because when a city is threatened, we see that this isn't just abstract geometrical future city model 2634253-B. It's a city with people, and cars, and businesses, and homes. Like the cities we live in.
We get to see the formation of a more militarized Starfleet.
We get to see villains with reasons for what they do. Reasons that at times we have to think about and consider that they may be at least partly right. Like
Ok, I see that I'm going to have to put a lot of this review in the spoiler tags. So I'm going to review what I can outside of them, then put the rest of this review in one big tag. Deal?
The crew's characterizations are dead on, with the exception of some of Kirk's choices, but I can chalk that up to him being shaken up by the events of the first portion of the film. Scotty is hilarious, but, more importantly, Pegg is becoming more like Scotty than in the last film. His performance is not a jarring bump out of the movie this time.
We do need to see more Sulu next movie though. Although the line he does get is fucking awesome.
The action setpieces are very thrilling, very stunning, and for the most part make sense.
The plot behind the plot seems obvious to everyone except Kirk and his crew, but then they're busy dealing with other things.
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Cumberbatch makes an awesome Q, doesn't he?
OK, just kidding. As you likely guessed, he plays KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!! And I have to say, he is a convincing ruthless genetically engineered superhuman. I look forward to the inevitible square-off between Daniel Craig's 007 and Cumberbatch's Max Zorin. He is logic, but also decisiveness, controlled recklessness, and physicality. Really, he's sort of an amalgamation of the strengths of Kirk and Spock.
But it's not just the intensity and depth BC brings to his portrayal. Not just the rage buried under the calculating exterior. The script has Khan doing things that normal hu-mons cannot do. That is refreshing. For too long, Trek has shied away from superhumans being actually physically superhuman. Prior to the reboot, the only time I can think of where we see anything approaching this was Data in First Contact. But Abrams is good at it. Great at it. Nero in Star Trek. Khan and Spock in Into Darkness.
There is one issue, of course. Khan doesn't look very much like the Khan we all remember. But when you watch the movie, and the full backstory is revealed, think about this: a little plastic surgery being done to Khan makes sense plotwise, to help conceal what has been done. Remember, in the prior timeline, they had the technology, at about this point in history, to make humans look like Romulans. So making a Sikh look like a white guy, removing a key physical identifying trait to conceal his identity, is not beyond the realms of possibility or plausibility.
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Viewing Advice: Watch this film on the big screen, you'll be glad you did.
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