Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016) by Aequatis — 26 Jul 2016

What (according to the second trailer and the beginning of the movie) promised to be an unusual incisive character developing story and a movie with a dark feeling set in a vast Star Trek universe, turned out to be blunt and unthoughtfully action packed without any character depth.

Scotty said "lets hope this doesn't get messy". However, it did.

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-- Antagonist has no (clear) motives.

-- Hardly any character development of crew members to last an entire (or another) movie.

-- Hard to oversee action scenes (flipping of the saucer disk).

-- Another enterprise destroyed: death of countless crewmembers and destruction of the entire ship has totally no emotional resemblance anymore.

-- messy, unclear and unconvincing storyline.

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+++++.

++ Producer JJ Abrams keeps inventing new visual effects, like the visually attracting warp bubble and the peculiar but interesting onboard camera looking at the Enterprise while it is shot away.