Star Trek Beyond
Director: Justin Lin
Staring: Chris Pine,
Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin,
Sofia Boutella, Idris Elba and many more.
Writers: Simon Pegg and Doug Jung.
Rating: 9/10
Plot: The Enterprise is in its third year of its five year
mission, to explore, fly about and find stuff. Captain Kirk is frustrated by
the endless shifting circumstances surrounding the ship and is considering
moving on while Spock is having to deal with a difficult time personally. They
are tasked with responding to a distress call from a captain who has lost her
own ship in a dangerous nebula. The Enterprise goes in to assist, but danger
lurks within…
That is the basic
outline and with all reviews here there will be no spoliers or indepth plot
breakdowns, why? Because you want to see the film. Hell, even if you don’t I
still don’t want to tell you. I think the joy of film is in the experience of
seeing it, not being told about it.
To start with I
have to tell you that I love the Original Series, Next Generation and Deep
Space nine. I was a huge fan of the even films in the first wave (for the most
part) and I loved the reboot. Yes, Star Trek Into Darkness pissed off a few people,
me included, but I still really enjoyed it for the most part.
Star Trek Beyond
has a new director – Justin Lin, and he has a wonderful history of delivering
great action with large casts, so I thought we’d get something a bit special
and I wasn’t wrong. Star Trek Beyond is awesome! The cast have chemistry in
bucket loads, the laughs are right there to be swallowed down and the action is
great!
The thing that
really makes the new Trek films really work is the cast. They deliver the characters
that we know from the original series and yet they have updated and rounded out
each officer so they live and breathe. I love Sulu and Chekov, they have a
wonderful connection and it will be sad to see Cho without Yelchin when the next
one comes along. Pine, Quinto and Urban are great together and I can’t help but
love them just a little bit more with each outing, though this time Urban
really does stand out as the man with the one liners. He’s brilliant! The new
comer, Boutella, is fabulous! She has a great look, really strong and is great
with Pegg and Pine. She was exactly what the film needed. Oh, and the opening
sequence? Brilliant too.
The action is
gripping, the plot tight and easy to follow, the sets and set pieces are
fantastic (the starbase is jaw dropping) and the pace is perfect. There’s
danger, excitement, adventure, laughs, tragedy, some super cool effects and I
loved the soundtrack. In short, Star Trek Beyond knocked it right out of the
park.
Looking at the
villain I think Elba had presence, chemistry with the other actors and he was
intense as the advisory. He did a great job at making the heroes sweat.
Star Trek Beyond
is the best of the new films. It feels like a Star Trek film through and
through but it has a greater emphasis on action and it has a faster pace than
the films of the past. Justin Lin is clearly the man to take this ship, and
this glorious crew, forward.
The one thing I’m
going to moan about is the trailer. Yeah, I know, that’s something that seems
to be happening a lot – the overcooked trailer, but I’m going to do it. Star
Trek Beyond has many of it’s stronger action sequences spoiled by shots of them
in the trailer showing the outcomes. That’s stupid. It’s annoying. It’s
completely unnecessary.
Other
than that, I loved it
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