Star Trek - Into Darkness - WARNING - SPOILER ALERT!

Just got back from the midnight opening of the long awaited Star Trek - Into Darkness. And, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. The basic synopsis is based around an attack on a Star Fleet facility (an inside job) and the hunt for the perpetrator (John Harrison played by Benedict Cumberbatch) by Admiral Marcus Who send Kirk and the Enterprise on the mission to find and kill Harrison.

Without giving away the story (yet), this movie is full of the things you'd expect from the rebooted Star Trek and contains the following...

Kirk's womanising, involving a (apparent) threesome with a couple of alien ladies with tails - insert suitably inappropriate pun to do with cats or synonyms here- :-)

Spock's continued struggle with his human emotions and mourning of his home world.

A major characters resignation.

A major & not so major (but still important in the Star Wars lore) characters death.

Klingons,

Treachery, camaraderie and friendships.

Alien worlds, new aliens, (actually, quite a few new aliens, both floating around the background on earth and as crew on the Enterprise).

The obligatory cool tech, although I don't really remember anything new that's worth mentioning. 

There are hugs and kisses, fights and squabbles, tears and laughter and 1 x Tribble. I would at this point like to digress and take the time to chortle heartily at the girl sitting behind me in the cinema who, prior to the movie starting,  proclaimed in her best outside voice (for everyone to hear) "I have 2 guinea pigs, 1 named Spock and the other Kirk. Yes, that's right, I'm a real fan!" and then at the end referred to the Tribble as "that weird fluffy thing". Please child, hush!

Most importantly, it stays true to the Roddenberry vision of our future and Star Fleet, Kirk the Enterprise and the values they hold important such as, honour, loyalty, integrity (see Scotty), exploration, and the working together for the greater good and advancement of mankind and society. I'm not a big time "Trekkie" but, i do appreciate the vision.

I'm generally not a huge fan of 3D (credit where credit is due, Avatar and Dredd 3D were done great), but the 3D in this is done well and generally not lost even in the action scenes, if you have the choice do the 3D thing.

Anyway, there's plenty of action and anyone who liked the 2009 reboot should love this. Go and see it. It's a solid 4 out of 5 choc-tops!



SPOILER ALERT - If you want to know who Benedict Cumberbatch's "John Harrison" character really is, scroll down.
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- I can't do it. Go see the movie!

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