Review of Star Trek Beyond (2016) by Alpharebel — 08 Aug 2016

So the great stuff: It's big, bold, action packed and filmed with some great cinematography, just what was needed for a cinemas blockbuster.

Now the bad: It's big, bold, action packed and very loud, not really what made the core of TREK (although it seems the reboot is moving more and more to a full on action franchise).

The movie has clearly been written by someone with a lot of love for the original material as it's jammed packed with jokes and easter eggs that point back to the original.

They line up some really great ideas and emperral the various members of the crew into their own little story arcs aaaaaaaaand then seem to hit creative bankruptcy, the final twist in the antagonists origin story and motivation is both rush and utterly nonsensical, and also leaves more questions then answers.

Also can't figure out why they even needed the "super weapon" that needs to be delivered by air vents (on space stations / ships that are supposed to be able to cope with decompression issues when they already had access to an unlimited swarm of drones and ships that were made on the planet that can rip through anything and everything kind of makes the clandestine efforts to trap the E and capture the other half of the super weapon utterly redundant.