The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Commander Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director:
James Cameron
Stars:
Sam Worthington,
Zoe Saldana,
Sigourney Weaver
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Director:
Rian Johnson
Stars:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Bruce Willis,
Emily Blunt
In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start World War III.
Director:
Matthew Vaughn
Stars:
James McAvoy,
Michael Fassbender,
Jennifer Lawrence
Following clues to the origin of mankind a team journey across the universe and find a structure on a distant planet containing a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and stone cylinders of alien blood but they soon find they are not alone.
Director:
Ridley Scott
Stars:
Noomi Rapace,
Logan Marshall-Green,
Michael Fassbender
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
Director:
Nicholas Meyer
Stars:
William Shatner,
Leonard Nimoy,
DeForest Kelley
On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien time-traveling vessel looking for Ambassador Spock, who, in this time, is also a child on Vulcan disdained by his neighbors for his half-human heritage. Twenty-five years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. Challenged by Captain Christopher Pike to realize his potential in Starfleet, he comes to annoy instructors like young Commander Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself, thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever as a new version of it begins. Written by
Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
The Beastie Boys, whose song "Sabotage" is featured in the film, had referenced Star Trek (1966) in their songs "Intergalactic", "Ch-Check It Out", and "Brouhaha". "Sabotage" itself was often a word William Shatner said with his with accented cadence on the series. See more »
Goofs
When they plan to sneak up on the Narada, Mr. Scott is holding a towel with both hands, but when they zoom up closer, he is holding it to his side. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Communication Operator:
U.S.S. Kelvin, go for Starfleet Base.
Kelvin Crew Member:
Starfleet Base, we've sent you a transmission. Did you receive?
Starfleet Base:
Kelvin, have you double-checked those readings?
Kelvin Crew Member:
Our gravitational sensors are going crazy here. You should see this. It looks like a lightning storm.
Starfleet Base:
What you've sent us doesn't seem possible.
Kelvin Crew Member:
Yes ma'am. I understand. That's why we sent it.
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Crazy Credits
After the closing credits, the sound of the Enterprise is heard one more time. See more »
Please, show of hands, fan boys? How many have even watched TOS? Even one episode maybe between cartoons? None of the characterizations were even remotely close. See, there is an empirical differential between impassivity, look it up, and very bad acting. Quinto is not insouciant; Quinto sucks as an actor. Believe it or not, Spock would not have an open sexual relationship with Uhura known to everyone on board. Please, you are embarrassing yourself. Why not have him disco dancing with a leisure suit on? Bones does not repeat metaphors or similes every five minutes. See, that is not clever, that is retarded. Chekhov's accent was very slight; here it is parodied to the point of Monty Python; which, by the way, is the best delineation of Lobotomy Boy's movie. Now, why does Scotty, inexplicably with a pet troll, beam someone light years away at high warp? Look, if it sounds absurd to an existentialist philosopher, how about to anyone with more science? It gets worse, Spock, in the biggest plot contrivance ever written, ejects Kirk onto an ice moon, where, coincidentally, both Spock: The Fossil Years and Scotty with troll are residing. That wasn't enough for Brain Dead boy, no, Kirk, in a miracle of synchronicity, is rescued from Jurassic boy by Spock, who just happened to be in that very spot, at this moment, on the whole moon. Do you know what Starfleet would have done to Pointy?
Does JJ take strong sedating medicines? Was the screenwriter his grandson, four years old? Does the person who wrote this use coloring books? I dare anyone to explain Nero's time-line with a trace of coherence? Could the time-line not require Stephen Hawking to explain it to us? Same thing in the new crappy Terminator, idiots strive for obscurity to cloak their idiocy. Pine's Kirk, you know High Forehead Neanderthal boy, is such an insult. He was was neither a juvenile delinquent nor a feckless, impulsive, castrated retard. Humanism, Abrams, put down your comic books, the bong and look the word up? Roddenberry said he created Star Trek to teach humanism. True, no skull crushing or knee stomping here; that is what makes it infinitesimally better than Star Crap: Into Moral Darkness. Yet, the movie is devoid of the cheesy, self pleasuring flattery that was Gene Roddenberry. Look, I am a misanthropist, but the man is dead: leave his freaking work alone!
I love with the fan boys acting like Darkness was an anomaly and this is the sacred treasure: no, it is minutely less awful. It is as life affirming and humanistic as a James Bond movie. The writing, acting, and non stop treasures that say JJ Abrams: Screaming, Kung Fu, shootings, eternal space battles, brainless 4th grade dialog, incoherent plot: Yes, how like Stanley Kubrick this idiot is. If I were related to Roddenberry, I would be getting a litigator. I concur with the others: THIS IS NOT STAR TREK.
"Fools Strive For Obscurity, Wise Men For Clarity." Arthur Schopenhauer
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Please, show of hands, fan boys? How many have even watched TOS? Even one episode maybe between cartoons? None of the characterizations were even remotely close. See, there is an empirical differential between impassivity, look it up, and very bad acting. Quinto is not insouciant; Quinto sucks as an actor. Believe it or not, Spock would not have an open sexual relationship with Uhura known to everyone on board. Please, you are embarrassing yourself. Why not have him disco dancing with a leisure suit on? Bones does not repeat metaphors or similes every five minutes. See, that is not clever, that is retarded. Chekhov's accent was very slight; here it is parodied to the point of Monty Python; which, by the way, is the best delineation of Lobotomy Boy's movie. Now, why does Scotty, inexplicably with a pet troll, beam someone light years away at high warp? Look, if it sounds absurd to an existentialist philosopher, how about to anyone with more science? It gets worse, Spock, in the biggest plot contrivance ever written, ejects Kirk onto an ice moon, where, coincidentally, both Spock: The Fossil Years and Scotty with troll are residing. That wasn't enough for Brain Dead boy, no, Kirk, in a miracle of synchronicity, is rescued from Jurassic boy by Spock, who just happened to be in that very spot, at this moment, on the whole moon. Do you know what Starfleet would have done to Pointy?
Does JJ take strong sedating medicines? Was the screenwriter his grandson, four years old? Does the person who wrote this use coloring books? I dare anyone to explain Nero's time-line with a trace of coherence? Could the time-line not require Stephen Hawking to explain it to us? Same thing in the new crappy Terminator, idiots strive for obscurity to cloak their idiocy. Pine's Kirk, you know High Forehead Neanderthal boy, is such an insult. He was was neither a juvenile delinquent nor a feckless, impulsive, castrated retard. Humanism, Abrams, put down your comic books, the bong and look the word up? Roddenberry said he created Star Trek to teach humanism. True, no skull crushing or knee stomping here; that is what makes it infinitesimally better than Star Crap: Into Moral Darkness. Yet, the movie is devoid of the cheesy, self pleasuring flattery that was Gene Roddenberry. Look, I am a misanthropist, but the man is dead: leave his freaking work alone!
I love with the fan boys acting like Darkness was an anomaly and this is the sacred treasure: no, it is minutely less awful. It is as life affirming and humanistic as a James Bond movie. The writing, acting, and non stop treasures that say JJ Abrams: Screaming, Kung Fu, shootings, eternal space battles, brainless 4th grade dialog, incoherent plot: Yes, how like Stanley Kubrick this idiot is. If I were related to Roddenberry, I would be getting a litigator. I concur with the others: THIS IS NOT STAR TREK.
"Fools Strive For Obscurity, Wise Men For Clarity." Arthur Schopenhauer