Re:Bleah. Not impressed (Score 3, Interesting)

It's an OK movie. If it weren't "Star Trek", it would probably rank with The Chronicles of Riddick.

Annoyances:

• Way too much lens flare and depth of focus manipulation. Even indoor scenes have lens flare. Somebody spent too much time pushing the buttons on the editor.

No joke. I saw it on a pretty decent screen with a DLP projector and I thought I had temporary blindness from the flashes of light on the bridge. You know it is bad when JJ himself admits it is too much. http://io9.com/5230278/jj-abrams-admits-star-trek-lens-flares-are-ridiculous

Somebody likes plumbing too much. Most of the interior scenes have vast amounts of piping and tankage. It looks like some of the shipboard shots were filmed in a modern brewery.

Okay, I'm totally with you here. Is this ship steam powered? Do I need to go to YouTube and look up Steam Trek for inspiration?

How did the Grand Canyon move to Iowa?

Okay. I'll give this one to wild rain patterns in Iowa causing massive soil erosion. I can handle that.

OK, the bad guys are attacking populated planets that are members of a military alliance by hovering in one place over the planet and lowering a drill? And nobody does anything about this? Even when they try it in populated areas? You'd think somebody might have something around that could fly and shoot, and with their planet being threatened, might use it.

Yeah, I see this too. No planetary defenses? Not even a random Vulcan with some rocks to throw even? How about Kirk collecting together materials from a nearby planet to create gunpowder to shoot at them? But the story must go on, so I'll have to give that one to story.

If you thought close-range ship to ship marksmanship in Star Wars was bad, here it's worse. Nobody can hit consistently at point-blank range. It's 1880s gunnery technology. But they can latch onto an individual falling to the planet and beam them up.

Apparently, we need Chekov at tactical...

Kirk's attitude wouldn't survive the first year at any known military academy. No matter who his father was.

No joke again. Where was Mrs. Kirk? It's called your hand, hit your kid with it a little more, Winona Kirk. That kind of upset me like watching the recent "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and having to deal with that kid.

Having escaped from a big ship under attack using a bunch of little shuttles, the crew would be POWs or dead. The shuttles can't fight and can't run.

I'll attribute that to Nero being an idiot tactician.

Time travel. Bad time travel. The deus ex machina of bad SF.

I'll give this up just because they needed a good reason to mess up the timeline.

Okay, I'll admit it, I'm a continuity nerd. I'm hardcore and get itchy when they start throwing the baby out with the bath water. But being as much of a continuity nerd as I am, I really enjoyed this movie. I'm not like all the other Trekkies who pick their favorite series out and bash others. I'm accepting of all, including Voyager and Enterprise, even for all their faults. I own them all and watch them all. I really will enjoy watching this two more times before it hits DVD and adding it to my collection.

I do recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't seen it and wondering. If you are on the fence, go watch it and make your own decision for yourself. The story needed some work, but I'll accept the fact it was a bit more action centered in to grab people in. Hopefully the next installment will go deeper into story.