Star trek into darkness: The next big blockbuster


Star trek into darkness
Starring:Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve
Rated: 8.5/10
Not just for the Trekkies but also for freshers, this one is a delight through and through. It is adequately old world, charming, mixes human emotions with the inimitable Spock logic, explores the final frontier with the same gusto and also relives the Trek series in right earnestness.
Add to that director JJ Abrams’ yen for fierce pace, drama and visual graffiti and you have an unbeatable combo that will soar the charts in a vertical climb. Though for oldies wedded to William Shatner, Chris Pine may come across as someone rather over the board, much too fierce to give finesse a chance, a man hellbent on quick revenge and a lad too young for the position on the USS Enterprise, there is no doubt that he too takes you where no man has gone before.
His journey is full of pitfalls and a mission bypassing the “just explorers” history of his unit. And, the pace of this spatial outing is set from the very first frame in which Kirk and Spock (Zachary Quinto) are busy saving a planet and its inhabitants in a haze of orange — a volcano bursting in the background, Mr Spock almost imploding in the heat and the space ship rising from the ocean for all to see. Even as you catch your breath, there is a rescue mission for saving Spock whose vulcan lineage disallows him from hiding the truth— this time about the laws contravened by Kirk. The Kirk-Spock relationship is syrupy — more syrupy than Spock’s romance with Lt Uhura. It has humour, expectation and, of course, a tantalising clash between human emotionalism and perceived vulcan lack of sentimentality. It’s in this relationship that the human side of Spock and the superhuman side of Kirk gets revealed. Around this central pivot, there is also a groovy villain, exploration of space and a mission you get instantly hooked on to. It is, indeed, a techno-savvy return to the good old days of the USS Enterprise and a crew you had loved so intensely all those decades ago.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 12 May, 2013

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