Paramount's billion dollar plus franchise has just had its life extended well into the 21st century thanks to J.J. Abrams and his creative team. STAR TREK was a good movie. Not a great movie, but a good one. Action packed, perfectly cast, great effects, very true to the spirit of the original, a plausable role for Leonard Nimoy as Spock to "pass the batton to the next cast", but with enough new flourishes to make it their own and continue the franchise. Again, like Wolverine (see previous blog post below), this was the origin story, and therefore a weaker story, since you have to reintroduce 7 characters. But the movie worked brilliantly in that even if you have no idea of who these characters are, you will enjoy the film. Where does it rank among the other Trek films? I would say right behind the best Star Trek film, which was Wrath of Kahn (ST2).
What's interesting, and I only know this because I also watch J.J. Abrams TV show FRINGE, is how they explained the parallel universe in both the TV show and the movie and did it in a believable way.
My friend Tom had a funny comment, because the villian is always the toughest role to in any ST film: "You mean to tell me that the villian was a disgruntled blue collar miner roaming the universe in a giant avocado?" Hilarious. Unfortunately, Tom did like the movie as much as he wanted to.
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