Movie Reviews: "Star Trek: Into Darkness"

[comedyfreak]

Reviews are in:

• "There are times when it feels as if the director has pulled a page out of the Michael Bay playbook, taking some of the action to exhaustive extremes. At other moments, all that bravado collapses into safer-than-necessary choices. But before that whither-Star Trek sigh has time to build, the film does something bold, surprisingly pointed in its treatment of terrorism, for one," Betsy Sharkey from The Los Angeles Times writes. "So many things are done right that even with the bombast, "Into Darkness" is the best of this summer's biggies thus far. It's a great deal of brash fun, and it should satisfy all those basic Trekkie cravings."

• Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune states, "Yes, the film culminates in a vicious fistfight that goes on slightly longer than forever. Yes, it's brazenly dependent on our collective (and justified) fond memories of the best of the first-round "Star Trek" movies, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." We won't say how, exactly, but it is. But the new film works. It's rousing. The human element, and the Vulcan element, to say nothing of various other species, are present, accounted for and taken seriously enough to matter."
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I loved the movie for me it had a couple of surprises and all the adventure you would expect from a Star Trek movie. I wasn't disappointed at all the 3D was wild, next I'd like to see it again in 2D. Two Thumbs up from me!

[JamesG]

Movie Reviews: Star Trek: Into Darkness


Several critics are writing at great length about how Star Trek: Into Darkness is not the last generation's Star Trek.





Claudia Puig in USA Today writes:

"The film may not go boldly back to the archives, but it serves up an exhilarating spectacle."





Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News comments that this go-all-out sequel really does try to go where no one has gone before.





And Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post says:

"Star Trek: Into Darkness" leaves the hatch open to countless possibilities, whether brand-new story lines or visits to familiar faces and places from the past."





But Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel, who has acknowledged that he's a longtime Trekker, and concluded in his last Star Trek review that it left him with the feel of a lost romance rekindled, writes that this one left him cold.

He complains that the movie's a muddle, a piece that [director] J.J. Abrams seems to want to turn into a "Lost" puzzle that makes more sense in his head than on the screen.





Lou Lumenick in the New York Post agrees:

"The only darkness here -- besides the dingy-looking images dimmed by 3D glasses, he remarks, is the murky plot, which is as silly as it is arbitrary."





Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times observes, for example that at times, the movie feels as if the director has pulled a page out of the Michael Bay playbook, taking some of the action to exhaustive extremes. At other moments, all that bravado collapses into safer-than-necessary choices.

Nevertheless, she concludes, "So many things are done right that even with the bombast, Into Darkness is the best of this summer's biggies thus far."





Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-Times also gives it a passing Grade -- perhaps a B-Minus -- writing that it amounts to a solid but unspectacular effort that sets the stage for the next chapters.

-IMDB News

[comedyfreak]

'Star Trek Into Darkness' Opens to $13.5M, Will Hit $100M by Sunday

"Star Trek Into Darkness" took in $13.5 million during its first day in domestic theaters Thursday, putting it on track to net $100 million by the end of this weekend, according to studio estimates. The film opened on 3,762 screens, 336 of them IMAX 3D.

J.J. Abrams' second foray into Gene Rodenberry's sci-fi universe is expected to surpass his first both at home and abroad.

The 2009 film opened to $75 million in the U.S. en route to a domestic gross of $257.7 million. While "Into Darkness" will have to compete with three major wide releases next weekend -- "The Hangover Part III," "Fast & Furious 6" and "Epic" -- it has received strong reviews and boasts an "A" from CinemaScore. It also has secured strong marks on Rotten Tomatoes from all critics, top critics and audiences.


The real improvement for Paramount this time around will be overseas, where the film has already racked up $47 million. It opened early in some markets but still has others ahead of it.

The first "Star Trek" reboot made $128 million overseas, strong for the franchise but weak for a massive summer tentpole. Paramount, partner and co-financier Skydance and Abrams' Bad Robot, put on a full court press to court the international audience this time around, ensuring that their expensive film, a reported $190 million, would make its money back (and far more on top of it).

Abrams directed "Into Darkness" from a script by Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. All four of those guys produced the movie with Abrams' Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk.

[TJL]

Loved it!

[Nighthawk76]

I enjoyed the movie. It wasn't great but it was entertaining. The major difference betweenThe Wrath of Khan and Into Darkness is that Nicholas Meyer expected his audiance to think where as J.J. Abrams does not.