Star trek beyond cast characters9/12/2023 I guess you could say I liked spending time with these characters and their adventure. We even get to end with a birthday party for Kirk and everyone celebrating with him. And like I said, it feels like these characters are friends, giving the conflict more weight. I particularly liked seeing Spock wrestle with the death of Spock Prime. I also like that not every situation is solved in the typical space movie way particularly a final big space battle that was very cleverly handled. I thought all of the action was terrific- both space and fist fighting. There have certainly been far worse villains in the history of Star Trek. The villain is maybe not the most creative one out there but Elba does a good job especially as he is less constricted by makeup. The villain, Krall played by Idris Elba, has an attachment to the ship which explains why he took a turn towards his evil ways. This created a sense of anticipation and excitement to the action. I often wasn’t quite sure how they were going to get out of a situation and then they’d try something and we’d all see how it worked. I liked the way the crew had to be creative in making the newly acquired ship work. Jaylah has been living on an old abandoned USS ship, the USS Franklin, which becomes central to the story. Her and Simon Pegg’s Scotty have good chemistry together and made me smile. She also is smart and a problem solver who knows how to fight hard when she has to. There’s a point where she breaks down over what happened to her father that is devastating. I liked her character because she is strong and tough which we see all the time in movies, but she’s also insecure and fearful of what the villain Krall might do to her and the others. Scotty meets a woman named Jaylah (Sofia Boutella). The unusual pairing of Bones and Spock was particularly fun to see. The actors have grown accustomed to their roles at this point and it felt like groupings of friends instead of colleagues. This is my favorite thing about the movie because divided up in pairs you really get to spend time with characters like Chekhov, Bones, Scotty and Uhura which can sometimes get lost in the Star Trek films.Īlso the dialogue between the pairings is very engaging and funny. In order to escape, the crew has to leave in different pods which land in different areas of the new planet. They did not feel invincible like some superhero movies. The swarm feels dominating and I worried for our crew. This was a new type of space battle I hadn’t seen before and I thought was very exciting. When they arrive close to the planet they are hit by a swarm of enemy ships that attack the Enterprise. They are given a task from the Federation to help an alien named Kalara get her stranded ship. The story of Star Trek Beyond has our crew on year 3 of their 5 year mission to explore the galaxy. There are real moments of heart and the script is full of witty banter In a way it reminded me of a Marvel movie with that kind of energy and joy. I was thoroughly entertained by this movie from start to finish. Next is Star Trek Beyond and in my opinion it is the strongest of the three. Benedict Cumberbatch is great as Khan but he is constantly interrupted by secondary villains and the attempt to mirror events like the death of Spock in Wrath of Khan with the death of Kirk don’t work (especially because they wimp out and make him not dead minutes later). Then we got Star Trek Into Darkness which is entertaining but tries to wedge in elements of Wrath of Khan that drag it down. The Eric Bana villain Nero is also pretty bland but that doesn’t really bother me. In this timeline of Star Trek Spock is more emotional and has a relationship with Uhura (Zoe Saldana) and his line readings just fell flat. The 2009 Star Trek is very entertaining but the cast was still getting into their roles and particularly Zachary Quinto as Spock fell flat for me. But that new take is okay with me because like I said Star Trek has had many different looks to it. The recent reboots have focused more on making an action franchise instead of a science fiction story like you get in Star Trek: the Motion Picture and III and VI. You have everything from a silly romp in Star Trek IV to horror elements in Star Trek II. However, even the duds feel like practically a different genre within the world of Star Trek. There are some definite duds, particularly Star Trek V: the Final Frontier. I still have yet to see an episode of the show (something I hope to soon remedy) but the movies are all very unique. Anyway, the more I have talked about Star Trek the more into I have gotten.
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