They’ve been together for years by now, how is this thing even still a talking point?). Zachary Quinto’s Spock, more tortured and fuelled by emotion than the late Leonard Nimoy’s essaying, lacks the hand-wringing and constipated delivery of past instalments and feels a tad more relaxed, while on-screen romantic interest Uhura, again portrayed by a criminally underused Zoe Saldana, provides mild chuckles as their crewmates pick apart the nature of their relationship (I mean, c’mon. Here, Chris Pine’s Kirk has less an arc than he had in previous reboot films, so much so Beyond clearly becomes more about Spock, Uhura, Scotty and Bones than it does their commanding officer. The film hits its marks in the action quotient, and for the most part is genuinely exciting, if not entirely as mysterious as it makes out (long-time viewers of Trek will probably spot what’s coming a long way off, as I did after much guesswork), but things shudder to a halt when the film is forced to spend time developing character, backstory, and plot.Īs with all the canon Trek films, Kirk is the central figure in it all, although tangentially Spock, by his very nature, is close behind. Up is down, gravity is defied, and no doubt gimble-makers in the greater Los Angeles area have a hefty retirement fund for later thanks to Lin’s spatially challenging prowess, in which the true axial nature of space is given thorough exploration via flipping camerawork and stellar production design. Taking over from journeyman director JJ Abrams, incoming helmer Justin Lin, late of the Fast & Furious franchise, delivers what can only be described as a rousing spectacle (that’s the kind of shit they put on posters, don’t you know) as he skewers every possible dimension of space in depicting the latest Trek adventure. Sent to investigate, the Enterprise crew find themselves betrayed and attacked, leaving the ship a ruin on the surface of a desolate planet and the plans of nefarious Krall, whose link to the Federation becomes a crucial element in Kirk’s plan to stop him, become a do-or-die mission for the stranded crew.
Whilst ashore, a mysterious refugee arrives, claiming to be an escapee of a mysterious presence inside an enormous nebula out in space. Midway through their 5-year mission to explore the galaxy, the crew of the starship USS Enterprise, captained by James T Kirk (Chris Pine, sporting a worse haircut than Mark Hamill in the original Star Wars, it must be said), have become a little institutionalised aboard the vessel, and so stop over on the Federation’s gravity-defying spaceport, Yorketown.
Showcasing the latest visual effects (as you’d expect), and reprising some of the rebooted franchise’s winningest combination punches of character conflicts, Beyond’s adventure through the stars comes with all the panache you’d expect and a surprisingly taciturn sense of fun: while things go boom and vroop and clang, you’ll be swept along with Kirk and Co’s voyage but in the quieter moments (not that there’s many, I’ll admit) you start to realise just how much you miss the original Kirk, Scotty and Spock. Vertiginous, effortlessly charming Trek entry that generates mild enthusiasm and cavalier action sequences without really returning us to the halcyon days of the 2009 reboot, Star Trek Beyond offers a return to service for the crew of the Enterprise and throws up a new villain in the form of Idris Elba’s maniacal Krall. Synopsis: The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test. Principal Cast : Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Sofia Boutella, Idris Elba, Joe Taslim, Lydia Wilson, Deep Roy, Melissa Roxburgh, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Greg Grundberg.
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