Peter Crisp wrote:I'd actually rather like some criticism from someone who isn't Hexx as at least I could feel they would be giving the film a fair crack of the whip and not just pointing out every single little thing wrong and claiming that the films rubbish.
Where've I said it was rubbish?
It's not perfect and it's got it's flaws. 6/10.
For what it is, it's good, but it's not spectacular - or genre defying. It dilutes its core and because much more generic to appeal to a wider audience.
It's no where near the better reboots (Films or otherwise) out there, and is just a an hodge podge, which everyone seems to be loving, simply because it's not horrible.
PP said pretty much the same thing - and you've seemingly neglected the part where we both said he had structual problems due to being a reboot/altnate reality/new story hybrid.
You want "bigger things"? Oki doki.
- It was a checklist of characters, they all got exactly one moment to shine, and then disappeared back into the background (Bar Kirk/Spock/Uhura, and to a significantly lesser extent Bones).
- If you weren't familiar with the characters, you wouldn't care. It's that reliance on previous efforts that hampers the film. It wouldn't stand at all well on it's own merits/characters. It's the odd mix of homage/rehash that makes it so messy.
- Badly directed/edited. It's choppy, it never let's up, it's messy (especially "in space"/battle, most of which you'll already have seen in trailers). There's a few character moments (Spock/Mother, Kirk/SpockSnr, Spock/SpockSnr,) but otherwise it's all....fast.
- It's about 20minutes too long (Presumably while Nero stopped to ask for directions).
- It suffers the classic mistake of making the enemy SO powerful, that a "rabbit has to be pulled out of hat" at the end to beat then. In the case the Jellyfish/Red Matter. Which was odd because during the Vulcan attack the little ship was heavily guarded, with lots of people on board. This time there was no one around. Huh. Lucky.
- Perhapes someone could also explain how they formed a plan around the Jellyfish/Red Matter, without Kirk revealing his knowledge/where it came from? They beamed on board to take out the wepaons/do some damage, but then it all seemed to be planned. Which again, was pretty lucky. (I went to the loo during this bit, so maybe I missed something).
And the lesser;
- For a series whose science has always been pretty grounded, it just flew out the window in the case to allow specticle.
- If you're gonna be "in continuity" and rely on past movies/series - get it right. Either ignore it, or get it right. Don't half ass it. You just end up with things "non trekkies" won't get (so add nothing), and "serious trekkies" will get pissed off by. (e.g. Just how old is Admiral Archer's dog now anyway?)
MCN wrote:Well so far, apart from Hexx, the film seems to be getting universal praise, even from non-trekkies.
Poor PP. Always forgotten and overlook again
And last time I looked at metacritc it was at 80%