Thank you JJ Abrams.
I wanted to hate this film being a fan of Star Trek:TOS. But so much was done and undone during the watching that I can't help but love it and I really hope that there is a spin off TV series in the wings featuring the talents of the movie cast to their best to build on relationships forged in this opening stanza of what could have been simply a rehash of an established televisual and artistic SF canon.
Zachary Quinto is magnificent as a troubled young Spock , and the fighting between the contrasting halves of his genetic makeup is enthralling, and goes someway to dispell the worry we all feel everyday about somehow changing history through a temporal paradox. We see an older mellowed Spock giving the sage advice his younger self to provide the stability a new future needs.
My biggest plaudits have to go to Karl Urban however as a young Leonard "bones" McCoy. This role is legendary. DeForest Kelly made it his own, featuring as far into the future as Star Trek:TNG as a very old man who never got over his fear of having his particles scattered across the universe. Karl Urban does the unthinkable and out "bones" bones in this film, and even manages to capture the essence and even the look to a 'T'. Don't even get me started on how JT Kirk got his name.
But that is the best thing about this film. We see so many back stories filled and developed in parallel and what feels like real time that you wonder how we have managed for so long to live without knowing how Spock met Kirk, and why there was always so much tension between Kirk and Uhuru.
If you see one pulp SF film this season see this.
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