Movie Review

Ben and I saw INTO DARKNESS Saturday afternoon and I have to say I was blown away. I love love love the Abram's reboot of the franchise. He manages to remain faithful to the core—the "soul" if you will—of the mythology yet breathes new life into the stories and characters in unexpected ways.

My only fear is that with him now becoming wrapped up with Star Wars, he won't have the time to do any more Trek movies, and that would be unfortunate.

Instead of rambling on at length about how awesome I thought this film was, I'm just going to copy verbatim what one of my readers posted on his blog because it sums up my own thoughts exactly:

GREAT!

INTO DARKNESS is not only the best of aaallllllllll the Star Trek movies, it is one of the best action movies in years. GO SEE IT! I'll be seeing it again if I get the chance. I'll leave it at that but for one more thing:

INTO DARKNESS breaks almost all movie rules:

• Sequels are not as good as the 1st.
• Reboot/Remakes are not as good as the original.
• Sequels which are reboots/remakes suck!
• Remakes of great movies are never as good as the original.
• Remakes of great movies which are also reboots are never as good as the original.

I had forgotten/didn't know the main plot for INTO DARKNESS so I'll not reveal it here but it took until 40% through that I realized what I was seeing. [And when I did, I giggled like a schoolgirl; it amazes me that they've managed to keep it quiet for so long—VR] When the action stopped the plot moved forward and the interaction among the characters was just as entertaining.