Starring – Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana
Director – JJ Abrams
Domestic Gross – $79,204,289 (as of 5/10/09)
Running Time – 126 minutes
Prior to going to Star Trek I heard some terrifying words from friends and reviewers… “alternate timeline”. That’s usually a cheap way to mess with history and is generally done poorly. Not the case with Abrams’ Star Trek. This was a well done reboot and is now less geeky sci-fi then kickass space action movie. See this movie within the next 10 days while it is still at IMAX. I grew up watching the original Trek movies and loved Next Generation. My fiancé hates roughly all things sci-fi. So, having brought her I think I got a good read on the film from a fan (me) and a hater (her). We both walked out loving it. The timeline thing can get a little confusing, but they took a second here and there to explain. Pine is perfect to play the young Kirk constantly womanizing and jumping in to action before realizing consequences. Quinto was fantastic as a young Spock. I always thought Spock would have been a little more reckless in his youth and Quinto nailed it. In any case I’m looking forward to their next effort tentatively scheduled for 2011. I remember the geek-filled excitement the first time I saw the new Trek trailer almost a year ago where they were working on Enterprise in a dry-dock so I guess the best compliment I can give to this is that it lived up to that excitement for all 126 minutes.
I’m Mike D and I approve this message.
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