You won't be disappointed!

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

All Star Trek movies are the same and very boring. Some characters are even very annoying. The subject is always the same, only the names of the planets, the solar or galactic systems and the new characters differ. In fact, every time you see the same movie, the same special effects which are not great ("2001: A Space Odyssey" made by Kubrick in 1968 is much more avant-garde and spectacular...), the actors, except for Patrick Stewart who is acceptable, they do not excel with anything, all of it is of a mediocre level. Ron Perlman (behind a mask again) and Tom Hardy are OK. Without costumes and without makeup, Star Trek movies would be of no value at all. I understand why Nicholas Meyer refused to direct this one after he was denied to rewrite the script. Even the music of Jerry Goldsmith is upsetting, annoying.

Though I've been a fan of the original Star Trek TV series and films based on that franchise, I've never been moved to check out any of the spin-off series. This is actually the first look I've ever had at the 'Next Generation' crew, and more than a few decades after the fact. I can't say that I felt anything really new here except for the cast of characters which I'm vaguely familiar with. Having just started wearing hearing aids, I felt a bit like Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Shinzon (Tom Hardy) dealing with Shalaft's Syndrome, in that I'm hearing things I haven't heard in a long time, as even the clacking of the computer keyboard as I write this has an annoying quality to it.The story itself here felt derivative of any number of earlier Star Trek stories - the Enterprise gets into a jam with it's current Commander, and he needs to use all of his experience and wiles to avoid destruction. Picard's opponent Shinzon was originally created with temporal RNA sequencing, but his cellular structure is breaking down because the sequencing was never activated. That seemed like a pretty big oversight to me when I heard it. Everyone knows you have to activate the RNA sequencing in order for the aging process to proceed at an accelerated rate.The bigger problem I had with the story was Picard all of a sudden agreeing to side with Romulan Commander Donatra (Dina Mayer) to go up against Shinzon. What happened to all that wariness against Romulan subterfuge and eons of hostile behavior against the Federation? That didn't seem realistic to me, even if Donatra had her own issues with Shinzon's plan to annihilate the Earth.But the biggest kicker of all was Picard deciding to ram the Romulan vessel Scimitar! What!?!? Seems there could have been a reckless endangerment charge in there someplace for the Captain. Fortunately it all worked out, but what about the repair bill on the Enterprise? You would think that would have amounted to a few sheckels when all was said and done. If only Picard would have downloaded Data's memory engrams into the cloaking device of the Scimitar, he could have lowered the Thaloran radiation level to sixty percent and made a clean sweep of overtaking the ship without all the destruction. Doesn't everybody know that?

WARNING: CONTAINS A FEW spoilers Let me start by saying I am a primo Trek fan. I've seen every episode of every series, I actually cried when the last Generation and DS9 episodes aired. Everyone who knows Trek knows that in the Original movies the odd numbered ones sucked, with V being the worst, followed by I, and then III (which I thought was OK, just hokey). In the Next Gen movies, First Contact was definitely the best, and you could place the other two in whatever order you want. I hadn't seen this movie in the theater because it wasn't a time when I was with other Trek fans, and there were so many other big movies out at the same time. Eventually so much time had passed, and I had heard it was not great. Boy was it ever!I blame the very poor script, (by John Logan and Brent Spiner) and a director (Stuart Baird) who had NEVER SEEN any of the Next Gen before, how ridiculous is that?! There are so many holes it's just not even funny. Here are just a few:* they get a "signal" of positron emissions from a planet, which means it's another Data. Now I can't remember from the show, but I don't think that had ever been able to detect it from a planet to a ship. They never explain any of this, finding pieces of an old Data prototype on some planet, other than it was to lure the Enterprise close to Shinzon. How did he get the prototype? Why was it in pieces? Why did they use a dune buggy that was really like 350 year old technology? Why did they not care about the Advanced Directive about not interfering with a pre- warp civilization, who then randomly shoots at them, like Mad Max?!*Of course it's no big deal to just download Data's brain into his suddenly-not-in pieces prototype, who magically is working instantly.*The Romulan Senate has like no security (even though they are suspicious people) and one leaves behind a "bomb" device that goes unnoticed until it's too late. The downfall of the Klingon Empire in VII was miles ahead.*They leave the shields down when dealing with Picard's clone who obviously is up to no good, so he can be kidnapped.*They don't explain how Data swaps for B-4 on the Scimitar, or how the enemy didn't know, or differentiate between the two, or anticipate the swap.*The Remans, who are light- sensitive, beam aboard, yet they don't brighten the lights.*The fight sequences are actually very slow... Why didn't the far more powerful Scimitar just keep firing? The pacing was terrible.*The Enterprise rams the Scimitar at a painfully slow pace, and yet they can't react, even though it has shields, it just kind of half- buckles into it. Both ships still maintain their integrity, and the Scimitar's weapon isn't disabled, and of course takes minutes to charge up. *Because the transporters are down Data launches himself into space, and yeah that works. Please.*Picard doesn't act like typical Picard and doesn't shoot his clone, but then they can get into a convenient knife battle, and then of course hesitates and doesn't want to finish him off.*Data then just blows the weapon up with a simple phaser blast with two seconds to spare (Data doesn't act like Data and hesitates too), and the whole ship is instantly pulverized by a phaser into a weapon that before was shown drying out flesh, but yeah okay who needs consistency?So they kill Data off but somehow this is okay because his memory is in the prototype, no big deal. Overall, the directing and the writing were terrible. I think this movie is now the second worst in the franchise after the original #5.I wonder what Gene Roddenberry would think, he'd probably hate it on almost every level.So there you have it, from a true Trekkie (yes I've gone to conventions and I've won trivia contests).

Well everyone said the same thing in detail. To summarize, deliberate sabotage. The head of this ship( the director) was careless and irresponsible and everyone under him suffered! If you don't steer the ship properly, its going down -- the very least, you go in a direction most inappropriate.. I get how everyone feels but this ST installment didn't have a fair and fighting chance! I say ... Do Over! Do Over! I liked this movie but it could have been sooooo much better! I mean, you've got the 'original cast' for goodness sake. Regardless of where they've moved on to, at this point of the game , you've got the original cast! I think that's half the battle for a great movie. What I always appreciated and missed was the light banter they always had with each other. That's what always stayed in my mind and had me chuckling long after the shows were over. I know the characters have evolved over the years but we still expect to see the familiar little something. In this last installment , to me, they seemed ... I don't know ... flat, forced and stifled. I mean , for instance, what was Wesley Crusher doing all the way over there in the corner during the wedding reception, huh? It was noticeable how off to the side he was. Part of the group but not. That to me was just awkward. Yea his storyline took him out of the game but still, on this occasion they should have done him better than that. His characters parting gift should have been more than that! And oh how Luxanna Troi would have loved this. And where was Worfs militant outbursts?! I don't know. Now the interactions between the Captain and Data ... I got a glimpse of the old familiarity in the interactions between those two. Why do they keep messin' with the formula once it's established. For me, it was the little things that I missed and that mattered. *sigh*