Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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.

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Writers:

Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman,

Stars:

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana

Top 250 #194 | 1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chris Pine	...	Kirk
Zachary Quinto	...	Spock
Zoe Saldana	...	Uhura
Karl Urban	...	Bones
Simon Pegg	...	Scotty
John Cho	...	Sulu
Benedict Cumberbatch	...	Khan
Anton Yelchin	...	Chekov
Bruce Greenwood	...	Pike
Peter Weller	...	Marcus
Alice Eve	...	Carol
Noel Clarke	...	Thomas Harewood
Nazneen Contractor	...	Rima Harewood
Amanda Foreman	...	Ensign Brackett
Jay Scully	...	Lieutentant Chapin

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

captain | friendship | death | bar | photon torpedoes | 

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Taglines:

They have one chance to save us all

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook [Brazil] Official site [Brazil]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Klingon

Release Date:

16 May 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

2

Filming Locations:

Crystal Cathedral - 12141 Lewis Street, Garden Grove, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$190,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$70,165,559 (USA) (17 May 2013)

Gross:

$220,501,000 (USA) (28 June 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Skydance Productions, Bad Robot

Technical Specs

Runtime:

132 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat SDDS Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Scotty refers to McCoy as "Bones" - this is the only instance in the history of Star Trek where someone other than Kirk refers to him by this nickname. In "The Tholian Web", when McCoy gets angry, Spock tells him that Kirk would have said "Forget it, Bones."

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Goofs

When Kirk is at the windowed door of the warp core, Spock puts his hand on the window to match Kirk's. Spock's fingers do the Vulcan sign. In the next shot, he is not doing it anymore.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Bones: Dammit, man! That was our ride. You just stunned our ride!
James T. Kirk: Great!

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Crazy Credits

One character is credited as Cupcake. This was the name Kirk called him during the bar scene in the previous film.

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Connections

Follows Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

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Soundtracks

"The Dark Collide"
Written by Robert Conley and Penelope Austin
Performed by Penelope Austin

User Reviews

An inventive, unpredictable, mesmerising space voyage! Spectacular!!!!

Truly spectacular, one of those rare amazing, inventive and often unpredictable blockbusters. The acting was great all round, especially Cumberbatch - wow, he was superb. The direction, cinematography and visual effects were all greatly innovative and brilliant; the screenplay fun, often humorous and has a lot of heart for all its characters which are all really well developed.

The film has some cliché moments which can't be avoided often with a film this scale however they make use of them well and still pack plenty of surprises. As well as this, despite not being a proper Trekkie myself, some moments gave me goosebumps from the awesomeness from seeing the Enterprise for the first time for example, which greatly honoured the original series. J.J. Abrams' lens flares helped create more realism in a lot of the scenes despite the fact he often overuses of them.

The villain was very interesting and the development, dialogue and motivations of his character were very convincing and inventive, Cumberbatch's fantastic acting greatly helped bring this character to life. Also the way he executed his plan showed a lot more cutting edge creativity than especially most modern blockbusters, not to say it's done nearly to the same level of genius but something I haven't felt in a villain's characterisation/acting since The Dark Knight.

Overall, a mesmerising film with nice homages to the original series, one filled with heart, grace, innovation, superb characters and acting and some impressive, clever visuals and immersive 3D, one of the only times I can say that. Up there with the 2009 one, not sure which I prefer, possibly the previous one largely due to the more clever story, despite this one having a much better villain, still not sure though. Still a very strongly recommended film, may hit my top 100 simply because how much I was impressed by it. 9/10!