While visually striking and quite interesting it lacks what the previous two Star Trek's had. Mainly because of plot oversights and just plain convenient timing or occurrences. That one can't help but find it a little bit annoying.
While I love Star Trek. I'm not crazy about this one. And here is why. It's forgettable. And while I do praise it for trying to be original. It just lack something that makes me not want to ever watch it again. I saw it in the theatre and I also watched it on Netflix. And it really is a good movie just not the best.
Like one of the main plots of the movie is this guy named Krall. Now Krall is the former captain of the USS Franklin and his name was Baltazar Edison. Now instead of having him have a part as a human they have the actor playing an alien throughout the whole movie. We don't discover this until near the end when Uhura discovers a video with him on it for half a second while they're looking for him. And really they should have had at least a 15-minute opening segment about the USS Franklin and its crew and what went on instead of this reveal later on that there's an old TV show Enterprise type Starship crashed on the planet. They addressed it a bit with some Captains Logs but the crashing of the ship and the discovery of the mining colony would have been great! Such a lost opportunity.
It goes on and on and on and there's so many different parts to this movie that just don't make a lot of sense. It would have made an excellent TV episode but as a feature film it's just kind of like marathon of convenience that stops you into thinking about its lost opportunity with actor Idris Elba who played Krall/Capt.Edison. For that reason I gave this movie a 7 out of 10.
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While I love Star Trek. I'm not crazy about this one. And here is why. It's forgettable. And while I do praise it for trying to be original. It just lack something that makes me not want to ever watch it again. I saw it in the theatre and I also watched it on Netflix. And it really is a good movie just not the best.
Like one of the main plots of the movie is this guy named Krall. Now Krall is the former captain of the USS Franklin and his name was Baltazar Edison. Now instead of having him have a part as a human they have the actor playing an alien throughout the whole movie. We don't discover this until near the end when Uhura discovers a video with him on it for half a second while they're looking for him. And really they should have had at least a 15-minute opening segment about the USS Franklin and its crew and what went on instead of this reveal later on that there's an old TV show Enterprise type Starship crashed on the planet. They addressed it a bit with some Captains Logs but the crashing of the ship and the discovery of the mining colony would have been great! Such a lost opportunity.
It goes on and on and on and there's so many different parts to this movie that just don't make a lot of sense. It would have made an excellent TV episode but as a feature film it's just kind of like marathon of convenience that stops you into thinking about its lost opportunity with actor Idris Elba who played Krall/Capt.Edison. For that reason I gave this movie a 7 out of 10.
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