Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016) by Ishadow — 03 Aug 2016

I've seen this movie week ago and still can't believe how bad it is. Although new Star Trek movies were more of blockbusters than sci-fi old Star Trek series were, but this one is just simply bad. Transformers bad. Plot is nonexistent, it's just do something to show huge explosions and some over the top actions sequences.

Change characters and ship name and look, and there will be nothing else reminding you that this is Star Trek universe.

If you watched some of the series and you are familiar with Star Trek lore, you will be just furious at the end for how stupid everything went.

Previous movies were also action filled, but they maintained a lot of Star Trek feel. This movie is just action, explosions, stupid dialogs that are trying to be funny, and more explosions.

Furthermore 3D effects are very weak, and CGI is unimaginative, Just simulate explosions with huge amount of particles.

Everything feels just cheap. There are only few sets used over and over again. You can also fill some basic plot developing techniques like showing early some objects or places that will be used, destroyed or burned to the ground.

I can't believe that this movie was even brought to existence. There are so many good stories in the lore that could be reused, and they used something so basic and primitive.

Overall:

+ original cast,.

+ Leonard Nimoy tribute,.

+ few first minutes, when you still hope it will be a good movie,.

- plot,.

- everything else.