IMAX
3D is the only way to see this amazing addition to Star Trek.
*****
out of 5
132
minutes
Rated
PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence
Paramount
Pictures
Now that J.J. Abrams has the setup for his alternate reality edition of the
Star
Trek universe, where does he go next? If you’re as fearless as Abrams is,
you dive head first into heavy
Trek lore. In his first outing some
people were put off by the fact that he basically dismissed over 40 years of
history. What he really did was give himself a clean slate to bring
Star
Trek to a new generation (or would that be next?). Along with his original
writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, this time Abrams may not be credited
to the screenplay, but regular collaborator Damon Lindelof has been brought in
to flesh out the new
Trek and plunge the crew of the Starship Enterprise
Into Darkness.
We meet up with Kirk (Chris Pine) and Bones (Karl Urban) on the run from a
tribe of Nibiru after having stolen an ancient artifact to distract them away
from their village while the rest of the crew assist Spock (Zachary Quinto) in
freezing a volcano before it erupts and wipes them out. Afterward, back at
Starfleet HQ, Kirk finds out that Spock has sold him out in his report and now
Kirk is being sent back to the academy and Spock has been reassigned.
Meanwhile, at the Royal Children’s Hospital in London, Thomas Harewood (Noel
Clarke) has been told by the mysterious John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch)
that he can save his dying daughter, which leads to Harewood blowing up the
Kelvin Memorial Archive. Starfleet knows it was Harrison, who used to be a
member of Starfleet, and after an attack on HQ, commander Admiral Marcus (Peter
Weller) allows Kirk to take back the Enterprise and take Harrison out.
And that’s about all you’re going to get out of me. Abrams has really
stepped up to the plate here to deliver one of the most solid sequels the
Star
Trek series has ever seen. Oh sure, the fanboys are going to rip this thing
apart, but we all know they’re going to see it multiple times whether they like
certain things or not. The rest of the crew makes their return of course —
including Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov
(Anton Yelchin) — and Carol Marcus (Alice Eve), the admiral’s daughter/science
advisor/weapons specialist has been added for good measure. To walk into
Darkness
with a clean slate is highly advisable, stay off the Internet at all costs! And
while I may have said before that
Oblivion
was ripe for seeing on IMAX,
Star Trek: Into Darkness blows that right
out of the water. With at least a half hour’s worth of IMAX filmed footage,
here’s the one film you truly need to see on IMAX. So this weekend, respect the
chair, and beam yourself
Into Darkness immediately.
Photo
courtesy Paramount Pictures
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