Movie Journal: Star Trek

Finally got around to seeing the new Star Trek flick, directed by J.J. Abrams and starring a full cast of young stars and unknown lense flairs.

I won’t get into the plot too much in case there are some that still haven’t seen it. But the story is very well written and developed and actually gives the audience a lot to chew on, especially if you’re big on piecing together and mapping out in your mind the vagaries of time travel and such. All I’ll say is that the marketing campaign did a good job of selling the movie as it is.

What I like about the movie the most is that it’s respectful to the original series without feeling a need to overtly pay homage to it. We know these characters or at least are familiar with them and so it’s easy to get invested in them and the story they’re involved in, especially since the exposition is never delivered in an incredibly heavy-handed manner. Instead it gets sprinkled here and there among the action, with the audience expected to keep up, a rare assumption that there are intelligent people watching.

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