Star Trek is an unnecessary reboot in my opinion. JJ Abrabs is a talented filmmaker and it is easy to see his enthusiasm (he is almost like a fanboy giddily recreating all his favorite childhood movies) and rigor but the reboot and especially the cast will always suffer from comparison with the original TV series. Furthermore, although the film is interesting and gets everything sorted- in as much as one can in less than 2 hours- there is a rushed feeling to the proceedings. The special effects are good but we've seen it all by now, the razzle and dazzle only goes so far. The Star trek reboot isn't a bad film as much as an unneeded one.

I am a Star Trek fan, a ST:TOS fan. And therefore I was (as many were) sceptical of a reboot of our favourite characters.But from a character point of view, I think the casting was great, the dialogue fun & witty, I enjoyed the pop-corn ride and wanted more from this crew at the end of the film. In sense, this film was a resounding success, great fun, I've re-watched it a number of times, because I enjoy my time & journey with the characters. It is also surprisingly respectful of TOS.There are problems - and the biggest is the plot is awful and the motivations are totally unbelievable. There is no just credible way that Spock would have been blamed for failing in a last ditch attempt to save an already doomed planet. The Romulans were never that illogical! But I still rate it highly because the whole experience is just such fun!

Movie Review: "Star Trek" (2009)Bringing together a remarkable new crew for science-fiction splendors to go inferior of this high-end Hollywood spectacle directed by J.J. Abrams, who brings endless passion to the subject matter he grew up with, when young soon-to-be Star-Fleet-cpatain James Tiberius Kirk, with total pleasures performed by actor Chris Pine, who further gets alongside with perfectly-cast young Mr. Spock, given face by Zachary Quint. Tegether they embark on mission of rules bending, loss, struggle in non-stop action captured in Acadamy-Award-worthy cinematography by Dan Mindel and supportive as splendid production design by Scott Chamblliss in future-defining efforts to attract any entertainment-loving movie spectator to be amazed and just taking away at the movies.The Enterprise crew surrounding performing industry professionals as Karl Urban as Bones, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, Simon Pegg as Scotty and John Cho as Sulu complete power-striving, cinematic-fully-convicted directions by young Hollywood filmmakers on fire to deliver the best-possible 120-Minute-Event-Movie for legendary 1912-founded Industry Major Motion Picture Studio "Paramount", which in prime-time releasing May 2009 could have been unimaginable proud to grant a 150-Million-Dollar production budget to ultimate, undeniable as obvious successes with audiences around the world in highly-recommended revisits of a motion picture entertainment breathtakingly-executed with opening sequence featuring Chris Hemsworth and Eric Bana for the ages in "David vs. Goliath" space opera stand-off embeddded into a tear-dropping score theme composed by Michael Giacchino under utmost confidence with Hollywood company primus "Bad Robot" productions. © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I really enjoy the Star Trek TV series (original, TNG and DS9) and admit that I am late to this review. As much as I enjoy Star Trek and its ideals I had watched Star Wars The Force Awakens by JJ Abrams and I hated that. Star Wars rebooted with completely non-plot for pre-teens and one-liners, wise-cracks and plot holes so big that even Donald Trump's ego could drive through them was not for me.So, anyway with a certain amount of hesitation I finally watched the reboot of Star Trek.... and it was as bad as I feared. Since it was expected I was not disappointed, but by gosh what is with the people who hire the director JJ Abrams? He makes every character a cartoon character. Never mind that the utopian and progressive society of the Federation is completely glossed over and ignored, but these characters with the formulaic backgrounds and corny lines and false tensions is just terrible. The Vulcans and Romulans' feud has never been as cliché-ridden I would say.Look, I get it. People pay for reboots and remakes and sequels and so Hollywood serves them up (or is it the other way around?), but use some imagination, have one novel or original idea at least. I am too old for cartoons... which explains why I won't be watching the next Star Trek or fifteen Star Wars coming out. Obviously the director JJ Abrams is specialized in reboots and remakes and sequels and not original ideas.