She calls Kirk “James T.” Overall, not a bad effort. ![]() She’s shown as being a capable engineering novice and a fighter. New life-forms: Jaylah’s a nice character. Uhura, Sulu, and rest of crew in Krall’s camp is less compelling, though Uhura’s one-on-one’s against the villain aren’t bad. The Kirk and Chekov stuff is all action, and Scotty and Jaylah are mostly played for laughs. I’ve been a fan of Urban’s McCoy and feel like he’s been underused until this movie. Their grudging respect for each other is explored, as well as Spock dealing with a big loss. There’s some real potential for interaction and character development in these sequences, but the best we get (as expected) is Spock and McCoy. We see some traditional and unexpected pairings here: Kirk and Chekov, Spock and McCoy, Scotty and Jaylah. Most of the crew is picked off by Krall and huddled together in cells pretty early, but a few are able to escape on their own or with a buddy. Let’s wander around on a planet for a while: There was a lot of potential in the middle act of this movie, and we get glimpses of it through some character beats. Everything up through this moment is the Trek we love. Everyone gets a good moment, from Scotty’s clever escape, to Uhura’s battle with the baddie, to Kirk saying a last goodbye to the bridge. The swarm of enemy ships in this movie is a force of nature, one that will be next to impossible to defeat. Most Trek battles are naval engagements, two heavy cruisers duking it out until one is victorious. It actually takes a good ten or so minutes from initial battle till everything comes crashing down as the Enterprise is picked apart by a swarm of ships unlike anything they’ve ever encountered. And in Beyond we see the consequences of that choice. The design of the Enterprise throughout the decades has often been criticized for putting the nacelles on long delicate arms. The fate of the Enterprise :There’s a real “oh sh-t!” moment early on in the sequence that my wife actually caught a few seconds before the rest of the audience. But the movie is still eminently watchable. Simon Pegg’s script and a lot of sly references do what they can to challenge that expectation and there are bits and pieces of something greater, but most of the middle section is exactly what we expected from Justin Lin. Right from the first trailer and the announcement of this film’s director a lot of fans were worried that we were getting Star Trek: The Fast and the Furious, a generic action movie instead of true trek spirit we’ve come to know and love. ![]() If you want a sense of what’s cool, what could have been done better, and whether you should go see this movie (you should), then read on. If you’re spoiler sensitive, avoid this post until you’ve seen the movie. The basics of Jaylah are discussed, as well as some of the cast pairings that happen in the middle section of the movie. ![]() SPOILER POLICY FOR THIS REVIEW: Most of the plot details I mention in this review are things we knew from the trailers (casting, fate of Enterprise, name of villain, etc.) I plan to talk a bit about the specifics of the Enterprise sequence, but I’ll avoid some details about the villain.
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