Star Trek Beyond Review
On Tuesday, my fiancé and I went to see Star Trek Beyond, here is his review!
Star Trek Beyond is the next instalment of the Star Trek reboot and, if I am honest, it comes up a little lacking on the last two movies. Nothing is particularly bad about the movie, it just lacks something, some parts of it didn't make sense and maybe they should have concentrated on some of the complexities more than other parts, like the stupid inane jokes which made 50 year old men laugh boisterously in the cinema which it (and I) could have seriously done without… these are the kind of people who laugh at The Big Bang Theory for all the wrong reasons.
Back to the movie. So, yeah, there's some good action sequences, there's a lot of explosions considering it's in space and for an explosion to work the way it's depicted there needs to be an abundance of oxygen surrounding the fire, but forget that, it looks ok.
Hell, we even have a gay Sulu, which the pessimist in me thinks was only 'chosen' to be the token gay guy because of the original Sulu (George Takei) is gay. The fact that Takei himself is not happy that his character was portrayed as a different sexuality suggests that he feels the same way. Why couldn't Uhura's break up with Spock have been fuelled by Spock's uncertain sexuality? I mean, Zachary Quinto is gay, and since he's gay that means it's ok for his character to be, right?! Oh well, maybe they'll save that for the next reboot. Don't get me wrong. I'm happy that there is representation there for LGBT people, it just seems that they took the easy option, the one that asks the least questions and least likely to offend.
So what happens in this movie? Kirk goes on a rescue mission which ends up with the Enterprise being attacked by an alien named Krall and left in a nebula with no way of contacting their base for backup. The ship gets destroyed and we find out that the person who did it intends on using something that was on the ship to destroy the Federation.
So while all this is going on, Scotty gets himself a new alien girlfriend who's a better engineer than him, Spock and Bones end up spending some bonding time together and the rest of the crew are caught by Krall and essentially waiting to die after having their life sucked out of them to keep Krall alive (I've heard this plot somewhere before)
Of course, the day is saved when Kirk manages to jettison the weapon which would have destroyed the Federation base with literally nanoseconds remaining.
Of course, Anton Yelchin passed away recently. His character in this movie (Pavel Chekov) had a relatively minor role in the movie, mainly as support for Chris Pine's Kirk, since Kirk and Spock were separated (probably to highlight the differences in their approach to the situations they find themselves in.) As a result, he gave a solid performance without ever having the opportunity to be outstanding, although sometimes having the ability to be a supporting character without upstaging the lead in your scenes is a major skill in itself.
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