With the new Star Trek movie coming out this weekend, I decided to do a review of the last Star Trek movie that came out in 2009 and was directed by J.J Abrams. Just a warning I will be doing this review with spoilers in it so if you have not seen the movie go watch it and then come back and read this review.
So Star Trek begins with the U.S.S Kelvin on a mission and then a massive warship comes out of nowhere and attacks the Kelvin. George Kirk played by a younger Chris Hemsworth has to evacuate the crew and fight off the attacking fighters to give the shuttles a chance to escape. In one of the shuttles is his pregnant wife who's in labor. She gives birth to James Kirk and George crashes the Kelvin and dies. The next pivotal scene in this movie is a conversation with Captain Pike and Kirk in a bar, Pike is trying to persuade Kirk to enlist in Star Fleet. At First Kirk does not seem interested but then he ends up enlisting. There's a test for Star Fleet cadets called the Kobeyashi Maroo (I hope I got the spelling right) The test is unwinnable, but Kirk re-programs the test and gets a high score. He gets grounded to Earth meaning he can't get assigned to any ship. But he sneaks aboard the Enterprise with the help of McCoy. And he gets pressed into action trying to disable a drill that the villain Nero is using to drill a hole in the Vulcan Atmosphere to destroy it. They disable the drill but Nero was able to destroy the planet. One thing lead to another Kirk takes control of the Enterprise rescues Captain Pike, destroys Nero, and gets named The Captain of the Enterprise.
One very interesting thing in this movie is you see Spock's logical Vulcan side and his human side which is more aggressive are at war with each other in his mind. The character development in this movie between Kirk and Spock is absolutely phenomenal it's some of the best character development I've seen in movies. The one gripe I have with the movie is it had a weak villain. He destroyed a planet with a black hole but he didn't have any weight to him. The movie was mainly about the relationship between Kirk and Spock, and Kirk becoming captain of the enterprise. However I can't wait to see Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain in this movie. From what I've seen in the trailers he will be a stronger villain than Nero was in the first movie.
I was not a Star Trek fan when I went to see this movie. I'm not a huge fan of Star Trek now, but this movie got me on board. J.J Abrams said when he was making this movie that he wasn't making Star Trek for fans of Star Trek he made it for fans of good movies. I think this was my favorite movie of 2009. It was much better than Transformers 2 that's definitely for sure. I'm going to give this movie 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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