Star Trek Into Darkness Reviews
We Got This Covered
J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness is a bigger and much louder sequel, which sacrifices brains and character building for expensive spectacle.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
TheMovieReport.com
Cumberbatch, with his otherworldly aura of menace and basso profundo rumble of voice, makes a worthy and memorable Big Bad in the annals of Trek lore.
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| Original Score: 3/4
EricDSnider.com
It's generally a lot of fun, but it's exhausting, and the busyness only somewhat disguises the fact that the story doesn't entirely make sense.
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| Original Score: B-
Projection Booth
Suggests someone painting by numbers with Herculian intensity, and the effect is hollow and dispassionate.
John Hanlon Reviews
Not as audacious or exciting as its predecessor but this sequel is still a fun summer ride.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Reel Film Reviews
...a terminally perfunctory followup that just barely gets the job done...
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
ComingSoon.net
Far from going where no one has gone before, this Star Trek is only interested in retreating along its old tracks.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Cinema Sight
Either reinvent or stick to the source material, don't try to have your fun both ways. It doesn't work.
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| Original Score: 2/4
MovieCrypt.com
... a summer film that dimly reminds viewers of what it used to be - and could be again - while still being little more than a rollercoaster ride.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4.0
Fan The Fire
There's really very little to complain about in this warp-speed sequel.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Q Network Film Desk
so enjoyable that it becomes easy to forget that virtually everything in the film is a riff or spin on something we (including only casual Star Trek fans) have already seen
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Thrilling if not exactly groundbreaking fun...yet something is missing this time around.
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| Original Score: B+
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Moment to moment, it's as entertaining, rousing and visually impressive as any recent science-fiction action epic, but the script is cratered with illogical motivations and plot holes large enough to swallow Classic Trek's Doomsday Machine.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Even old-school Trekkers will enjoy this voyage.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
MLive.com
J.J. Abrams' sequel is smart, fun, witty, essential sci-fi.
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| Original Score: 4/4
jackiekcooper.com
It feels a little "been there, done that" but it still entertains.
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| Original Score: 6/10
BET.com
'Star Trek' safely does its job and is easily the first must-see action flick of the year.
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| Original Score: B
TheDivaReview.com
Maintaining its reverence for the source material while employing an exuberant and clever script with one heck of a plot twist, Star Trek: Into Darkness is great fun and a more than worthy successor to the excellent first film.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Tulsa World
Set phasers for fun with this blockbuster.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
