Star Trek Into Darkness 2013

Beyond the darkness, lies greatness.

7.3 / 10   8818 vote(s)
PG-13
Action Adventure Science Fiction

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Homepage https://www.paramountmovies.com/movies/star-trek-into-darkness
Release Date 2013-05-05
Runtime 2h 12m
Directors J.J. Abrams, Dan Mindel, Ramsey Avery, Stephen Christensen, Natasha Gerasimova, Bruce McCleery, Yanick Dusseault, James Clyne, Ian Calip
Producers J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Dana Goldberg, Jeffrey Chernov, Paul Schwake, Bryan Burk, David Ellison, Damon Lindelof, Ron Ames, Stuart McAra, Richard Ivan Mann, Luke O'Byrne, Dale Taylor
Writers Gene Roddenberry, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Damon Lindelof

Weak story for a movie with a huge budget.

Honestly, I think you will only like it if you are a Treky. In no other way you will be able to get any logic out of it and the fact that the Captain of the space ship is the first to get out to do field work.

Andres Gomez

The following is a long form review that I originally wrote in 2013.

Star Trek: Into Darkness, or STID, as the kids are calling it (which makes me sad 'cause it's akin to both STI's and STD's) is, in my unprofessional opinion, a step up from the previous instalment (which I did still quite enjoy).

Both J.J. Abram's 2009 film, as well as Into Darkness did both, however, seem to have an issue I couldn't overlook in common. And that is that both essentially feel like an incredibly drawn out episode of a TV show. And I've seen next to nothing of the old Star Trek series, so it's not from that sort of a view I've come to have this feeling. It's just a sort of unshakable notion I developed after a few minutes from the start during each film. Even in this aspect, Into Darkness is a slight improvement on its forebear.

This new Star Trek film is, unfortunately, riddled with plot holes. Some... Or at least one, is completely unforgivable. They're not enough to ruin the film per se, but it does make me wonder about Abram's ability to be a showrunner in the future if he can't even handle Star Trek. Right from the get go I had questions that could have easily been answered with only a couple of lines of dialogue's worth of effort. Which was sad, because it cast a pall over what was, at its heart, an enjoyable piece of cinema.

Despite these issues worsening as the movie progressed, a congratulatory word does again have to go out to Abram's and his team for their tweaked timeline. Working a way in which to successfully reboot the franchise, without belittling the integrity of the original was a great move (moreover, they've left themselves open for more deviations in the future, now that the concept is established). Very smart.

Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho and Anton Yelchin returning is of course a big plus for me. Completely unsurprisingly there just as fantastic as ever. But, that kind of Tumblr user would I be if I didn't give a special bit of praise to Benedict Cumberbatch (which all levity aside, is actually well earned from the Brit, who makes for a spectacular villain).

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-Gimly

Gimly