Star Trek: Into Darkness
Star Trek: Into Darkness
A review:-
I'll tell you the truth: Star Trek Into Darkness is all about lies. But more on that later.
Meanwhile, here's another truth: Few who journey into darkness return unscathed. So it is with JJ Abrams' latest Star Trek movie. But it's certainly a helluva lot of fun getting there!
Something for everyone
Newbies to Trek will enjoy Into Darkness for its fast-paced action and cloak-and-dagger undertones.
But if you happen to be a Trekkie, you're in for a bigger treat with all the little easter eggs scattered throughout the film: be prepared to do a double-take on some characters and occasionally muttering to yourself, "Did he just do that?!"
There are also a few smart hat tips thrown in for the discerning movie buff: the opening sequence alone has Kirk (Chris Pine) and Bones (Karl Urban) in a very Indiana Jones-y mad dash to safety across a brightly-colored alien landscape, complete with stolen artifact and angry natives giving chase.
And I'm sure more than a few Sherlock fans will be seeing this movie just to watch Benedict Cumberbatch on the big screen. The steely gaze and stiff upper lip that made him famous as the titular character in the BBC's hugely successful TV show certainly serve him well here.
Dark universe rising
But it is a dark universe indeed that Abrams brings to the screen.
Into Darkness shows us a United Federation of Planets still locked in a cold war against the Klingon Empire —yes, you'll see them for the first time here, guns ablaze!— and more than a few people realize that the Federation is worth defending at any cost.
Enter the movie's most controversial character, Captain John Harrison (Cumberbatch).
Longtime fans who are both well-versed with established Trek lore and familiar with Abrams' alternate take thereon have been at a loss guessing how he fits into everything.
Harrison is made out to be one of Starfleet's finest gone bad... Very, very bad. He uses his deep knowledge of Federation bureaucracy and their inherent lawful good to his advantage, leaving a path of chaos and destruction in his wake.
But there's a reason to his madness: as it turns out, he's been lied to and he'll stop at nothing to take back what's his. And he's not above throwing down a few lies of his own to do it.
It's a trap!
Harrison wastes no time engaging the entire Federation in a battle for survival where the fight isn't between right and wrong but between evil and lesser evil.
This quickly leaves the entire Enterprise crew trapped between a rock and a really hard place.
But as Kirk demonstrated in the Kobayashi Maru scenario, there's always more than one way to handle a dilemma. Except that there are always consequences.
Kirk learns this the hard way early on, when he's reprimanded for violating the Federation's Prime Directive once too many times. He doesn't believe that he's above the rules, but he also firmly believes that there are times when rules need to be broken for the greater good.
This, of course, doesn't sit well with his superior officers, and it gets him into trouble—but he's used to that, anyway.
Besides, he's not alone anymore: He has his crew to back him up. That's another area in which this movie particularly shines—just how much the Enterprise crew have come to trust and depend on each other, echoing the complex characterization and interpersonal dynamics that fans have always loved from the original series.
Lies and more lies
But make no mistake: this is a place where, sometimes, lies and obfuscation are justified for the sake of the common good.
Star Trek Into Darkness boldly goes where the previous movie feared to tread: that gray area between duty and responsibility, right and wrong, truth and lie.
Speaking of which, remember that part about this being a spoiler-free review? That too is a lie:
Be prepared to see a major character die
Source:-
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...-it-s-all-lies
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