Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016) by Mumbl — 06 Aug 2016

Good: Impressive action scenes.

Bad: Everything else.

Movie starts with Kirk proposing to work as the head of the space station and quit exploring space.... The movie doesn't tell anything about the station and its purpose. Then some alien arrives and star fleet sends the enterprise on a mission to find the aliens crew. The movie does not tell anything about the alien or what it might have said to convince star fleet to believe the story without further evidence. Spoks part in the movie is reduced to slapstick comments. The bad guy controls a massive army of ships (millions) and is angry that he could not leave the planet. In the end, the movie tells that the bad guy is in fact the former captain of the uss franklin which is stranded on the mysterious planet. another alien uses his stranded ship as a house and he seems to just have forgotten about it. the crew of the enterprise needs about five minutes to fix the stranded ship and escape with it. to free their captured team mates, they have to fight against 10 or 15 soldiers of the bad guy in what looks like a scout camp. their alien companion just looks different but one doesn't get to know it any further. the bad guy wants to use a secret weapon against star fleet to get revenge for them not rescuing him and his crew. AAArrrgh, I don't want to continue. This is obviously a **** movie. Even if you are not a Star Trek fan, it has nothing to offer but great cgi scenes.