Purely Positive Film Review-Star Trek

The opportunities for excellence in film are rare. Star Trek took nearly all of the opportunities available. The cliche background story that is world renowned for drawing legions of nerdy cave-dwelling fans into the open in their most ornate garb would not initially lead one to believe that coolness would ever be related to Star Trek. Frankly, coollness sounds like the opposite of Star Trek. Yet, there I was, kinda thinking that I wanted to be Captain Kirk and/or Spock. Only a powerful summer blockbuster film can manipulate a cliche like that. I even dare to say that this movie ranks in the echelons of other summer blockbuster greats as Independence Day and Jurassic Park. Really. Start to finish, constant action, and action I actually give a shit about. Not like so many modern movies where they skip that whole part where you actually grow to like the characters before tossing them towards the perilous brink of disaster, this movie manages to do both simultaneously. Now, I am not, by any means, attempting to indicate that this movie had the heavy cannon fodder for deep intellectual stimulus nor did I really want it to. On the other hand, movies are our culture's most effective means of escape without using drugs and for the time the lights were down in that theater, I was on romulon and concerned solely with the status of Kirk's ranking on the Enterprise--meanwhile my bills, career, and all else was beamed to a distant galaxy. When the lights arose, I felt as satisfied on unhealthy smut as at the end of a chinese food buffet, except, unlike the buffet, I couldn't wait for next time.