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Star Trek: Into Darkness is the second of this year’s summer blockbusters that I have seen and it was so much better than the first, Iron Man 3. It was always going to be hard to make a good sequel when the first of this Star Trek reboot series was so impressive! However director J.J. Abrams has managed to do it again.
One thing I love about this franchise is the characters, they are all so likeable – all the crew of the Enterprise bring different things to the storyline keeping it fresh and entertaining. In this outing it was Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty that was the stand out for me. Pegg has found his niche with this character in my opinion and I hope that he returns to this role in the future.
Towards the middle of this film I was wishing that the plot would have been more simplistic, more like the first outing – however I understand that to keep things interesting and to develop the story the plot needs to become a bit more complicated. Although by the end of the movie this was no longer a problem and I understood it more clearly.
I loved that the scene where Kirk, played by Chris Pine, dies is actually believable and you genuinely think that is it for him, and you can’t really piece together a way to get him back straight away, very few films are able to do this these days – most are very predictable. Straight after this as well it’s great when they all go kick ass on Khan – who was brilliantly portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.
BIGGEST FLAW – No major flaws
BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT – Casting
Rating – 9.5/10
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