Star Trek Into Darkness Review

Star Trek Into Darkness


Release Date: 23rd April 2013 - Australia
(premiere)


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Bad Robot Productions
Skydance Productions

Distribution
Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 133 minutes


Budget: $190,000,000

Box Office Gross: $467,381,584
(Worldwide)



Plot Summary
When the crew of Enterprise
is called back home, they
find an unstoppable force
of terror from within their
own organization has
detonated the fleet and
everything it stands for,
leaving our world in a state
of crisis. With a personal
score to settle, Captain Kirk
leads a manhunt to a war-

zone world to capture a 

one-man weapon of mass 

destruction.

As our heroes are propelled
into an epic chess game of
life and death, love will be
challenged, friendships will
be torn apart, and sacrifices
must be made for the only
family Kirk has left: his crew. (Source - Metro Cinemas)


Cast
Chris Pine - Captain James T. Kirk
Zachary Quinto - Commander Spock
Zoe Saldana - Uhura
Karl Urban - Dr. Leonard
"Bones" McCoy
Simon Pegg - Montgomery
"Scotty" Scott
John Cho - Hikaru Sulu
Benedict Cumberbatch -
Commander John Harrison
Anton Yelchin - Ensign Pavel Chekov
Bruce Greenwood - Rear
Admiral Christopher Pike
Peter Weller - Starfleet Admiral
Alexander Marcus
Alice Eve - Dr. Carol Marcus
Noel Clarke - Thomas Harewood
Deep Roy - Keenser

Nazneen Contractor - Rima Harewood

Amanda Foreman - Ensign Brackett

Jonathan Dixon - Ensign Froman

Aisha Hinds - Navigation Officer Darwin

Kimberly Armand - Madeline

Beau Billingslea - Captain Abbot

Anjini Taneja Azhar - Lucille Harewood

Jason Matthew Smith - Cupcake

Chris Hemsworth - George Kirk

Jennifer Aniston - Winona Kirk

Heather Langenkamp - Moto

Leonard Nimoy - Elder Spock (Cameo)

Crew
Producer/Director - J.J. Abrams
Based on Television Series
"Star Trek" - Gene Roddenberry
Writers/Producers - Roberto Orci,
Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof
Executive Producers - Jeffrey Chernov, 

David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Paul Schwake
Producer - Bryan Burk
Co-Producer/First Assistant Director -
Tommy Gormley

Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager - 

Tommy Harper

Co-Producers - Michelle Rejwan and 

Ben Rosenblatt

Language Consultants - Britton Watkins and 

Marc Okrand (Uncredited)
Production Designer - Scott Chambliss

Supervising Art Director - Ramsey Avery
Makeup Designer - Don Lanning
Creature Designer - Neville Page
Costume Designer - Michael Kaplan
Director of Photography - Daniel Mindel

Stunt Coordinator - John Stoneham Jr.

Fight Choreographer - Marcus Young
Special Effects Supervisor - Burt Dalton
Second Unit Director/Visual Effects Supervisor -
Roger Guyett
Visual Effects Co-Supervisor: ILM - Patrick Tubach

Visual Effects Producer - Ron Ames

CG Supervisor: ILM - Robert Weaver
Film Editors - Maryann Brandon & Mary Jo Markey

Composer: Theme "Star Trek" - Alexander Courage
Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer - Ben Burtt

Music - Michael Giacchino


Review
Casual but mildly intense, 'STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS' is a good sci-fi movie that evidently delivers a compelling solid story. Unfortunately, I must diagnose this film with having a few shortcomings which will not work in the sequel. The scene from the feature's final half feels to be a bit of a metaphorical retread of 'The Wrath of Khan'. The director J.J. Abrams is not taking his signature technique of lens flare too seriously and has overused it in each of his shot scenes. I don't think that'll change me from liking Star Trek again, but its at least better than the other features I've seen in the cinemas such as 'Iron Man 3'.

Many of the aspects have graciously saved the movie from failing such as its astonishing visuals. The action goes into tension and the actor that portrayed the main antagonist Benedict Cumberbatch surely makes his character move and act very nightmarish. He has his vocal cords sound even more haunting than Jeremy Irons when he did the vocals for Scar in 'The Lion King'.

No, I won't make an observation that I have any more liking for Star Trek. 'INTO DARKNESS' is not the best sequel I have watched, but sufficiently enjoyable for the audience and for them to feel they are being treated with respect.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

 

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