The Big Bad barely registers as a threat or even a person of interest, especially in comparison to the colorful cast of heroes. Kirk, Spock and the rest of Starfleet are going through the motions when pounding on Krall and his minions there's nothing else driving the action past a feeling of genre requirement. Worse, because the through line of "evil alien wants mystery item to blow up the world" is so thin and well-trodden, these scenes feel aimless. The storyline is thin, and fights feel aimless Instead, they're devoid of personality, as characters push buttons to fire the Enterprise's weapons or silently punch and shoot their way out of danger.
Few of these fights stand out as suspenseful or even memorable. Lin may be regarded for the explosive Fast and Furious movies, but long, wordless shootouts can't live up to car chases. For every scene where Spock and McCoy have a human (in a manner of speaking) heart-to-heart about the Vulcan's relationships issues or despondence following his older self's death (a nod to Leonard Nimoy's passing during production), Star Trek Beyond has to throw a boring fight into the mix. They're not content just letting the characters relate to each other this is an expensive sci-fi movie, after all. Abrams and director Justin Lin's modus operandi. Hanging out with them, luxuriating in their quirks and comic quips, helps to make the film enjoyable, not just watchable.īut "watchable" seems to be producer J.J. Even the most casual Star Trek fan (like myself) knows the reformed lothario Kirk, the socially awkward Spock and the bumbling Scottie. The time we get to spend just hanging with the Starfleet crew is when Star Trek Beyond is most entertaining. Instead of giving it up, the Captain and his crew quickly wind up in intergalactic warfare that ends with them crash landing on a foreign planet. An alien threat infiltrates the Enterprise as it travels into uncharted territory, and its leader, Krall, is after an ancient weapon that has accidentally come into Kirk's possession.
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They only become moreso as the movie struggles to get its bearings and find a plot. It's a quick recap that Kirk summarizes in one lampshading quote: "Things have started to feel a little episodic." Three years into a five-year mission, Kirk catches us up on what's been going on with the crew.
Kirk (Chris Pine, embracing his inner Shatner). Following the events of 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness, we reunite with the crew of the Enterprise, led by a graying Captain James T. That's despite Star Trek Beyond's self-awareness of its episodic roots, which is evident from the get-go. That’s a problem when you’ve paid for a blockbuster film, especially when the focus is on the action, not the conversations and politics smaller-scale Trek properties are best known for.
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