Film

Star Trek – Into Darkness

We just got home from the cinema.  We went to watch Star trek Into Darkness.

What can I say?

Having watched the film, I was so taken by Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance.  He made a good villain, it was so good he stole the show from the original lead stars.  Whenever he was on screen you will watch him more than anyone.  His screen presence was so powerful that I may become one of his Cumberbitches!  LOL

He’s never looking more magnetic.  His hair, his eyes!!!

This new film is part of the reboot movie from J J Abrams starring Chris Pine as Shatner’s Captain Kirk.

It is different from the former Star Trek movie francise.  It was felt the scenario was getting tired and been played out.

To make it not to be out of the StarTrek storyline altogether, it was rebooted, meaning the stories are now based on a parallel timeline with certain differences.

Spoiler Alert……  Please do not read if you are going to see the film.

The film started with Captain James Kirk and Dr Leonard McCoy running for dear life. As part of the Enterprise mission, they were in that planet observing and studying “ancient” civilisation and investigating why a volcano was blowing up. Unfortunately, the “natives” saw them and went after them. The cinematography at this point was fantastic. It gave us a view into what it might be liked if a planet is under a red sun, ergo, the process of photosynthesis may be absent thus there is no manufacture of chlorophyll that gives the plants its green colouring.

Anyway, Kirk and Mccoy were running amidst beautifully coloured red giant trees and also from white as chalk half-decaying human-like beings.

The story is very good, fast-paced, make sure not to drink too much so not to go to the loo and miss any of the scenes.:)

There were some very human humour touches which pertain to the blossoming love story of Uhura and Spock.

I feel that the relationship between Uhura and Spock sacrificed a bit of the close friendship between Kirk and Spock.

I think the beauty or rather the relevance of Spock is his logical approach that reason alone matters.  Ergo giving him a girlfriend decry his logic.

Another potential permanent character was introduced which was played by Alice Eve, daughter of Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan. She was Carol Marcus, a physicist with expertise in weaponry. I must say at first she was just a bimbette. She did not look the part of a scientist at all as shown when they were looking at the new torpedo aboard the Enterprise, Alice, bless her was so out of place, she was just a very pretty blank canvas, someone like Rachel McAdams would have been a perfect Carol Markus, feisty and spirited. oh well.

In previous stories of Star Trek, Carol Markus had a relationship with Captain Kirk and they had a son. Probably this is what it would lead to in later films of Stark Trek.

Zachary Quinto was brilliant as a young Spock. His characterisation was very faithful to Leonard Nimoy’s Spock.

By the way, Leonard Nimoy had a cameo in the film.  Goodness, he was old. Young Spock was asking the help of the older Spock on how to best deal/defeat Khan.  I can’t help thinking when Spock said that he can’t really say, I wanted young Spock to say “bugger off then” LOL

The rest of the mainstay characters were also brilliant. It was like watching old friends. They made the roles believable based on the original ones.

Karl Urban played the younger Dr McCoy with mannerisms and attitude eerily like those of the late Deforrest Kelly’s rendition.

Chekov was cute and Russian.

Scottie played by Simon Peg was manic but you would want him to be always on your side. He is a genius engineer.

It was sad when Bruce Greenwood’s Admiral Christopher Pike died. I felt like crying with Kirk. Admiral Pike was the one who recruited Kirk into the academy.

Chris Pine was a handsome Kirk and played the role well enough but he doesn’t have the charisma of William Shatner’s Captain Kirk. Shatner has good humor and yet a strong character.