One Year Later: 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

[StarFuryG7]

I believe this is the best review of the movie that I've read to date.

Not that I've read many --probably just a handful at best, if that, but this guy really nails it.

Of course, he also had a whole year to ponder the film.

One Year Later: 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

thedissolve.com/features/one-year-later/591-one-year-later-star-trek-into-darkness/

[Mel]

From the article:

In the first 33 minutes of the film, Kirk holds four different ranks: He’s the captain on Nibiru during the cold-open chase scene, but gets sent “back to the Academy” by an unseen tribunal in the next debriefing scene with Bruce Greenwood’s Admiral Pike. Two scenes later, he’s drowning his sorrows at a bar when Pike shows up and makes him his first officer on the Enterprise; two scenes after that, Admiral Marcus gives him back the Enterprise and his captaincy to go kill Khan. All of these are huge, life-changing moments in Kirk’s life—or at least they would be, if the movie spent even a minute or two contemplating them.

Fascinating.

A few months later, Abrams second-guessed himself in an interview with MTV, saying he came to regret the way he handled the Khan reveal.

Better if Abrams had regretted using Khan at all.  Maybe he'll get there yet.