Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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Most of the logic has leached away from this movie, and with it half of the fun.

May 20, 2013 Full Review

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

Happily, there's a good deal of fun if you like things crashing violently into each other and out of warp-drive at regular intervals.

May 18, 2013 Full Review

Bob Mondello

NPR

Top Critic

For all its chasing and falling and fighting-and the movie supplies a great deal of each-Star Trek Into Darkness is at its best when the Enterprise crew are merely bickering and bantering among themselves: less space opera than soap opera.

May 17, 2013 Full Review

Christopher Orr

The Atlantic

Top Critic

The conceptual sci-fi of the original series is nowhere to be found, though you might enjoy watching the skinny young actors approximate their counterparts from the 60s; Chris Pine is especially good as Captain Kirk.

May 17, 2013 Full Review

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

While the action is often electric, it's the relationships that matter. That, and a lippy regard for a cultural legacy.

May 16, 2013 Full Review

John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

The film is, for whatever else it might be, one of the funniest of the Star Trek entries.

May 16, 2013 Full Review

Mick LaSalle

Hearst Newspapers

Top Critic

a complex plot that manages to balance character writing with slam-bang action sequences

May 22, 2013 Full Review

Mark R. Leeper

Mark Leeper's Reviews

You don't have to be totally immersed in Trekkie lore to follow "Into Darkness," but a bit of basic Trek 101 would at least shed a little guiding light.

May 21, 2013 Full Review

Neil Pond

American Profile

It's definitely a fun action movie, but I'm ready for these films to boldly go in their own direction, instead of hanging on to the originals.

May 21, 2013 Full Review

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

A tribute to excess, but in a good way, sort of.

May 20, 2013 Full Review

Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

Shiny all over: the explosions (MANY), the destruction (MUCH) and the death toll (HIGH) feel like someone demanded this sequel "take it up a notch."

May 19, 2013 Full Review

Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

Movies With Butter

Abrams works in scenes of friendship, honour, loss and loyalty, but the drama coasts on the emotional legacy of the series rather than creating any of its own heart or warmth.

May 19, 2013 Full Review

Simon Foster

Screen-Space

I was comforted to see a warp drive spacecraft could be kickstarted like a 1912 Buick, and we were treated to not one but two desperate uses of the fabled "manual override."

May 19, 2013 Full Review

Pete Vonder Haar

Houston Press

At its best, Star Trek Into Darkness is Cumberbatch; at its worst, it's cumbersome.

May 19, 2013 Full Review

Tony Macklin

tonymacklin.net

A safe sequel which, while certainly engaging and entertaining enough to recommend, fails to live up to the franchise's daring, appointed mission 'to boldly go where no man has gone before.'

May 19, 2013 Full Review

Kam Williams

AALBC.com

Like the Vulcan IDIC, it is infinite diversity in infinite combinations, allowing for surprise as tropes regroup and characters react in accordance with what we've come to expect from them, but with refreshing twists.

May 18, 2013 Full Review

Andrea Chase

Killer Movie Reviews

Pine and Quinto have grown into their roles and seem much more assured than four years ago. Quinto is especially impressive. This could be the best Star Trek movie of them all.

May 18, 2013 Full Review

Tony Medley

Tolucan Times

While it doesn't quite reach the giddy heights of its 2009 predecessor, this new picture is terrific popcorn entertainment, the sort of bright, brawny blockbuster that used to define the summer movie season.

May 18, 2013 Full Review

Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

Action-packed Star Trek sequel has good story, characters.

May 18, 2013 Full Review

Common Sense Media Editors

Common Sense Media

More of the same from J.J. "Lens Flare" Abrams. No substance. All action. Discredit to Gene's legacy. Review pending.

May 18, 2013 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

For the most part, the film is a carbon copy of the last one, in both its strengths and weaknesses.

May 17, 2013 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

The set up for future sequels is not done subtly but with an assurance that this puppy is going to be around for a long while.

May 17, 2013 Full Review

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

The new Star Trek film by wunderkind director JJ Abrams is much, much better than his much-lauded 2009 Trek reboot. It had to be...Abrams has packed together a ripping, morally complex, highly intelligent story with some truly awe-striking visuals.

May 17, 2013 Full Review

Jim Schembri

3AW

The best tear-pumpers are the simplest: the passing mention of a starship called the USS Bradbury, or Kirk helplessly extending his arm to a crewman falling past him to his death.

May 17, 2013 Full Review

Richard von Busack

MetroActive

• 1. John Harrison: I surrendered to you because despite your attempt to convince me otherwise, you seem to have a conscience, Mr Kirk. If you did not, then it would be impossible for me to convince you of the truth. 23174611. Coordinates not far from there. If you want to know why I did what I did, go and take a look.
  – Submitted by Christopher J (12 days ago)
• 1. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!
  – Submitted by Catherine D (12 days ago)
• 1. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: I hate this.
  2. James Kirk: I know you do.
  – Submitted by joseph j (12 days ago)
• 1. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: You're not actually going down there are you? Jim, you don't rob a bank when the getaway car has a flat tire.
  – Submitted by joseph j (12 days ago)
• 1. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: That was our ride. You just stunned our ride.
  – Submitted by joseph j (12 days ago)
• 1. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: Remind me never to piss you off!
  – Submitted by Caitlin R (12 days ago)