Star Trek Into Darkness

You know, when I went to see "Star Trek" back in 2009, I went with great trepidation, because I've never been a 'trekkie', so I assumed that this was going to be just another TV show blown up to fit a feature length running time with better visual effects. Well, after viewing it, I was wowed. It was great. The casting by April Webster,csa and Alyssa Weisberg,csa was perfection. They were the stars, clearly because of their casting. Well, after watching "Star Trek Into Darkness", I still had that same feeling afterward.

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror named Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch), from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Capt. Jim Kirk (Chris Pine) leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes, including Mr. Spock, Lt. Uhura, Bones, Scotty, Mr. Sulu, and Chekov (Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, and Anton Yelchin) respectively, are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Others to round out the cast are Bruce Greenwood as Pike, Peter Weller as Marcus, and Alice Eve as Carol.

This was powerfully and intensely directed by J.J. Abrams ("Mission Impossible III" '06, "Star Trek" '09, "Super 8" '11). He knows intense and gritty--look at his resume. One can watch these actors and see that they would've acted like the way these characters did they they were young. It was spot on. The writing by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof, which was based on the TV series, "Star Trek" by Gene Roddenberry, had the  equal quality. The script was cohesive, just ran right along like a well oiled machine. The visual effects were predominantly created by ILM (Industrial, Light & Magic) and were absolutely seamless. I am not usually in favor of viewing films done in 3D, but this one was actually enhanced by the process. Usually films done in the 3D process are done so because of the extra profit they generate. Can you say ca-ching? But this was awesome in 3D.

I would be remiss in my duties if I told you to take or leave this film. You have got to see this, especially on the big screen, because it just plain ROCKS!

Out of 4 Stars: 4                        Rated: PG-13                      130mins.