An average movie

Finally… I’m almost there… Indeed, I spent a good chunk of this year watching everything single Star Trek movie. Anyway, since this movie was a flop and some of my dearest Listal friends told me not to watch it, I wasn’t expecting much from it, but honestly, I don’t think it was so bad at all. One thing that really bothered me with those Star Trek flicks is that they all looked terribly cheesy, even the movies made in the 90’s (the only exception was ‘Star Trek: First Contact’). This movie was no different, I’m afraid. It started with an awesome view of Romulus but that was it and we were back into cheesy SF… Still, even though the story was as usual rather convoluted and under-written, there were many things I enjoyed. I mean, the confrontation between Jean-Luc Picard and his evil clone was pretty neat and it featured a solid performance by a very young Tom Hardy (yeah, the same guy that made his breakthrough 10 years later with ‘Inception’ and ‘The Dark Knight Rises’). I also liked the scene where Picard decides to get a full frontal collision with another spaceship , even though the outcome was honestly rather pointless. To conclude, even though it is far from being one of the best Star Trek vehicles, I found it was not one of the worst either and it is actually worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10