Star Trek

Location - GSC Pavilion THX Screen

“Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

Howdy MobieFans! Growing up, and being a sci-fi fan, you’d usually be pushed into 2 pretty specific categories. A Star Wars fan, or a Trekkie. As you might not have guessed, I have always been a Star Wars fan and found most Trekkies deeply uninteresting and ironically enough, a lot dorkier than myself. So will this new self titled Star Trek movie change my perception of the majority of Trekkies all over the world?

Deep thinking was always a favourite pastime on the Enterprise

Without trying to give too much away, the movie revolves around the origins of the crew of the starship Enterprise which we have become so accustomed to over the years. This movie also gives a little bit of twist, in the sense that it’s a prequel and a new movie altogether. Movie starts off with a Starfleet ship being attacked by a very very big Vessel. The leader of this big Vessel is in search of a certain Mr. Spock, of which the captain of the Starfleet ship has no idea of what he is talking about. From this you start to deduce that this ship doesn’t seem to be from the present but from a different time frame. The first officer of the Starfleet ship, George Kirk evacuates the ship after being repeatedly shot at by the Vessel. Without any hesitation he decides to stay aboard the ship and attack the Vessel just so that the escape pods would be able to get to safety. It is from this that the pod carrying his wife and his son are able to escape and later own his son will grow up to be the legendary James T. Kirk (played by Chris Pine).

Going outdoors never included matching outfits

I’d have to say that finally this was the first movie in a long time that I actually enjoyed watching. Not that the other months were filled with dire and gut-inducing movies, but it has just been a while since I’ve gone to the films and just came out smiling. The movie had such a good flow to it, it never over emphasised too much on the origins of each and every character. Whenever a crew was introduced, you’d take it, put it on the board, look at it and carry on. Unlike some films where they try too hard to explain origins and ended up dominating the whole film with character biographies like a secondary school history book. More action less talking please.

Not everybody found "your mama jokes" amusing

Also it definitely had more outside action scenes which didn’t make it look too much like a management meeting like in every other Star Trek episode. Visually it looked outstanding which is far cry from my previous review of Wolverine. But its probably because u tend to associate sci-fi films with visually stimulating shots and therefore there’s more need for CGI as compared to other types of films. Without doubt this is probably the benchmark for this summer blockbusters.

I’m not such a Trekkie fan but I can assure you that if you’re a fan of Sci-fi, action and general wholesome entertainment then this is a movie you have to catch on the big screen. I think it’s worth emphasizing that you can save money from watching all the dramas, comedies and romantic films in the comfort of your home, but when it comes to the big movies this year, please by all means watch it at a THX screen and a combo popcorn meal in hand.

Ratings - 4/5