Director: J. J. Abrams.
Main Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana.
Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Gene Roddenberry.
My Rating: 9/10.

To start, I think I need to make the statement that I’m not a “trekkie”. But, I went to watch the last star trek movie and as a micro review.. I liked it pretty much! Yeah. It was funny, full of action and very eye catching. Now, let’s go on with the serious stuff. First of all, I didn’t go to see the movie in a normal situation, but through an invitation for a preview. I found strange that they didn’t have a ticket or a brochure to bring as a souvenir. Second, I was surrounded by security guys, and I felt like some kind of criminal, but the highest point was when I reached the door to the movie room, and with a metal detector I was asked to show my mobile phone. As I have a Nokia N95, they said I had to leave the phone with the security central. I found it kind of weird, but in fact, if there’s any phone that can do a quality rip, is a phone like mine. Apart from being weird, the procedure worked really well, as they stored the phone in a sealed plastic bag with a code and gave me a little ticket with the code, to claim the phone after the movie. After entering the room and finding a good spot in front of the screen, I saw that in spite of being in a movie room with a bunch of normal people, I was surrounded by a geek family in my right side, with the father talking about Kirk and aliens, a mother talking about voyager and warp speeds and the whole family with an eager smile, like they were going to watch some kind of heavenly movie. Then, I turned my head slowly to the left and there were some geeky guys, with old fashioned glasses, a bunch of tech magazines in their hands, like T3, Stuff and Computer Magazines, wearing Simpsons T-shirts. To be sincere, I felt a little weird, but found it funny after all. The lights went out and the trailer exhibitions started. I got curious with Angels and Demons but I definitely have to see Night at the Museum 2! Trailers shown and the movie started, as it is supposed to.

In the beginning, I thought that the scenes were awesome, with some stunning images to watch, but… I think that the beginning was a bit boring. It happens that it makes sense to be like this, as the first part of the movie places you in the plot and tells you the background history. You get to know that there is a Romulan bad guy named Nero that comes from the future to hunt Spock, as he didn’t save his planet. Kirk happens to be a rebellious kid and Spock is the result of a Vulcan father and Human mother relationship, and in spite of being very intelligent and smart, denies entering the Vulcan council, because he prefers to make it to the Starfleet Academy than to be humiliated for having a human mother. Then, the movie starts to get more interesting. There are some action fights, some nice chicks, some really funny stuff and the Star Trek action begins to rumble. In this parts of the movie, I loved Kirk’s cockiness, the fact that Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy has a space phobia and what he does with Kirk to get him on the Enterprise, by giving him a vaccine with some hilarious reactions, the complications related to Pavel Chekov’s accent, and some more stuff, like Hikaru Sulu being heavily trained in skilled one-on-one combat, more specifically… in fencing. It was also a nice surprise to see Leonard Nimoy appearing as Senior Citizen Spock. Well, by the end of the movie, I was a happy and satisfied person, for watching a science-fiction movie with some nice action and funny scenes, although I didn’t ended up saluting everyone with Spock’s split-finger salute, while saying the famous phrase “Live long and prosper”.

I found the graphics awesome, and in a final thought, I had just watched a very entertaining movie. One final thing that caught my attention was that in the posters and advertising stuff, Winona Rider was always portrayed as being on the main cast, looking like she was more important that some of the other main characters. Only then, after thinking a while, was that I realized that she was in fact Spock’s mother!

Star Trek: Movie Trailer.

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