Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016) by Av_Stylez — 28 Jul 2016

It certainly had it's moments but unfortunately seemed to scramble from one action seen to another. By the end, you got this empty sense that the film had to hurry to address a lot of interpersonal plot development that it just never got to.

Spock and Uhura spent 90% of the movie apart but we were supposed to feel some rich development in their relationship/break up. The villain appeared out of nowhere with technology that was given to explanation and monologued like every other villain in Abbrams' Trek films.

I did love the chase scenes but the fact that they broadcast a song and their whole enemy fleet got taken out was ridiculous and wreaked of desperate "we gotta find a way for the good guys to win" logic.

There was seemingly little rhyme or reason for the villain to become deranged and for his crew to unquestioningly follow. Finally, I couldn't understand how the woman who tricked the Enterprise into going to that planet to begin with pulled it off.

If she was really part of Krall's crew, should there not have been traces that she has a human genome in there? Or do they just not run any scans on a strange species they've never seen and take her at her word that she needs help.

"Let's send our flagship, unquestioningly into a dangerous nebula on a goose chase mission to save a small science ship from another species because this pink chick tells us to"... I dunno, they lost me there.