Before I say anything, this movie is the first time I have seen anything that has to do with anything
Star Trek related.
From what I understand, this film is the retelling of some events in the Star Trek universe. It gives backstories to a bunch of major characters and introduces some sort of alternate universe. I'd go into more detail, but given that I am not the least bit familiar with how
Star Trek works, I won't bother. Overall, the plot here was reasonably entertaining, but nothing special.
As I am not a fan of
Star Trek I can't comment on how this compares to any of the other films. I think this film is supposed to be family-oriented but it did involve a lot of complicated modern physics which probably goes over the head of most of the viewers. The film spent a lot of time talking about black holes, singularities, event horizons, wormholes, and other things of this nature. As I am somewhat familiar with modern physics, this wasn't too complicated to me, but I think this might confuse a lot of viewers. I would also like to complain that the ending was rather unrealistic in the sense that a ship crossed, or was at least very close to, an event horizon and then returned to earth shortly after they left. This is of course impossible as time becomes infinitesimally slower as one approaches the event horizon so the crew should have arrived millions of years in the future. This isn't particularly important, but I felt like mentioning it anyways.
For someone like me who knows nothing about the
Star Trek franchise, this film is okay. For fans of the franchise, I have no idea what they should think about this film. I found it perhaps slightly better than the average film, but nothing particularly great. It had some pretty good special effects, but it seemed like they were often at the expense of a meaningful story.
76.5/100
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Subject: Star Trek (2009) 
Sat May 09, 2009 9:49 pm
