Reviews

I was expecting much more of this movie with so much hype around it. The group of heroes does not have that much tension as it should have. I mean, the group consists of different species, but they are so generic, there is a "guy from Earth, Han Solo style", "hot chick", "idiot muscle guy", "talking racoon", and a "tree", who are trying to kill each other from start, but suddenly trust one another with their lives. No second thoughts, no tension. We are not introduced to any of the heroes and/or villains thoroughly - we can see that Peter's mother died when he was young... And then what? Apparently, there is more to the story of every character, but we get only partial information and only to the end of the movie. Then we have some blue villains and shooting starships, and all the generic sci-fi stuff, which is great... But this has been seen before (even the story with the powerful artifact and villain from another planet is not that uncommon, last time we have seen it, was Thor: Dark World, which was a just two movies before this in the series). So yeah, for this movie to be something more, the characters would have to be more believable. And I don't blame the actors, I blame the scriptwriters. Some of the scenes are frankly unbelievable and utter BS (the danceoff scene, etc) Some characters and sets resemble other movies (The Collector and others -> Hunger Games style).

In my opinion, this movie fall into the same category as Upside Down and Jupiter Ascending - nice graphics and all, but just for the sake of itself.

I know that Star Trek is a huge series with a lots of hardcore fans etc, but as a person who has never seen it before, and started only recently, I was drastically disappointed. Yes, I know that it is from the late 60s, so I expected that the "hi-tech" stuff will not be so much hi-tech now, and that does not bother me, I am okay with that. What bothers me is the production quality, that, from my point of view, too low.

Just a quick list:

• It seems that (after watching 4 episodes, I could not force myself to another one), that every episode could be executed in 20-30 minutes, but takes 50. This is very basic problem, there are unnecessarily long pauses and shots of no importance, so I got bored very quickly. Maybe in late 60s when there was nothing else on TV it was OK, but now, I can't go through it.
• most of the times there are no "unnecessary" people in the rooms, just the people who have the dialogue. Sometimes when the scene takes place in hallways, we can see somebody going in the opposite direction, but the same should apply in the rooms. I mean, big rooms like the medical quarters, cafeteria, some main control rooms - but no, there are almost always only the main protagonists. But it's supposed to be a bloody big ship, so where are the people?
• The plot "twists" are so predictable - They go to some planet, find somebody or something, and then weird things start happening on the ship. Of course it has to do something with the fact that you just visited the alien planet! And they seem not to get it.
• Lazy camera work