Star Trek Into Darkness

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

The best place to start is to say that I’m not by any means a Trekkie and that was apparent during this movie because the fans were laughing and crying at moments that I wasn’t.  But the Trekkie next to me was polite enough to wait until the start of the movie to begin opening her childproof candy bag, thank you for that.   I’m not completely up to par on my Trek but J.J. Abrams is intelligent enough to know that not everyone is and he has done so well with the creation of his two Star Treks that even the casual Star Trek fan will be able to follow along and even get all the throwbacks to the Treks of old.  This was a balls to the wall fun movie from the opening and keeps the pedal to the floor the entire time.  It’s J.J. Abrams; of course it’s going to be a great movie.  With that said not only does he do a fantastic job with the story, but also he gets us more involved with the characters and their relationships with one another.   The fun factor of this movie is off the charts, Simon Pegg (Scotty) is hilarious as always, Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock) continue their complicated relationship, Karl Urban (Bones) and John Cho (Sulu) get in on the fun along with Zoe Saldana (Uhura) and Alice Eve, (Carol) thank you very much J.J.  As far as Benedict Cumberbatch (Khan) let’s just say that this man needs to make room on his mantel for awards that he will be winning over the course of his acting career. 

Grab your friends and some popcorn and prepare for a fast paced kick ass movie with adventure, awesome story, great graphics, and non-stop fun that keeps you entertained for 2 plus hours.  This is in my opinion an upgrade from the first movie and you are guaranteed to enjoy this, that’s my non-Trekkie opinion, and that’s all that matters.  One thing is for sure; all the Spock fans are going to leave this movie with giant grins and serious woodies over this movie. 

Enjoy the show.  5 out of 5 communicators