by MS C

Created on: May 21, 2009

I am not a Trekkie; my parents were never Trekkies; and I have only ever had one friend who WAS a Trekkie - HOWEVER - if Paramount Pictures keeps making Star Trek movies the way that they made this one; I may just as well become a Trekkie very soon. J.J. Abrams took a dying series...no, scratch that, a dying franchise and re-invented it. Let's start off with the acting. Every casting choice was perfect - bringing in big names like Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Zachary Quintos, John Cho and Simon Pegg and matching them up with lesser known actors like Chris Pine, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, and Zoe Saldana. The acting was solid - each actor got so well into their roles that the audience was submersed fully - well - for the most part. My small beef with the acting was Yelchin - who is Russian and speaks fluent Russian; however he put on a Cold-War Russian accent - very mockworthy and entirely unnecessary - however, in an interview with him - he told the interviewer that it was what J.J. Abrams wanted.

Onto the director himself. J.J. Abrams is a hit-and-miss director. Very talented with Television (Lost, Alias, Fringe) not so much in the Film world (Mission Impossible 3, Cloverfield). I was hesitant to see how he would do as a director; but he didn't disapoint. He took, what I considered to be something boring, and turned it into a masterpiece. It was like Beethoven playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

The movie was action packed and kept the audience enthralled for the full two hours and seven minutes. The plot, simple as best was a re-telling of the lives of Captain Kirk and Spock; although messing up with the entire timeline the only issue that bothers me about the movie is the time travel. If something goes wrong in Star Trek there is always time travel to fix it; hence how we have the recreation of the series. The end of the line has come; so we'll just travel back in time; mess up the story and re-start the series. This Star Trek is like the Batman Begins of Batman or Casino Royale of the James Bond Series. It's going back to the beginning; and it's telling a whole new story.

Paramount is already set to release the next Star Trek movie in 2011 and I personally can't wait. I can't wait to take my next adventure with Captain Kirk at the helms of the USS Enterprise. I hope you all agree with me. I give this movie a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars!

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