Star Trek, 2009, directed by J.J. Abrams, Fandango At Home digital library, 2.5 stars.
I stumbled across this in one of my digital libraries, didn't realize I had it. I have no memory of acquiring this, must have gotten it as some sort of promotional giveaway.
Having enjoyed the original Star Trek series about 50 years ago and having seen a few of the early theatrical films -- and being a bit of a fan of J.J. Abrams -- I decided to give this a whirl.
And I enjoyed this movie for awhile. The film looks spectacular, and I enjoyed getting the origin stories of James T. Kirk and Spock. I had no idea what was happening in the early battle scenes, didn't much care about them. But not a problem. That wasn't what I was interested in.
And then we get to a scene about an hour in where Kirk discovers Leonard Nimoy hiding in a cave or something -- obviously as a senior-citizen version of Spock. And he starts going on about some time-traveling gobbledegook and the meaning of friendship and the value of emotions blah-blah-blah-blah. And I was done.
At that point, we were moving heavy into a conflict plot involving some lame Romulun warlord and shrinking planets into black holes and all I wanted was for it to end. Which it eventually did about an hour later.
Meh. It was fun for awhile, before it got really tedious. It all looked spectacular, no question. But I think I'm done with precious space-travel stories.
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