{4.5\/5} “Jim, you’re not actually going down there, are you? You don’t rob a bank when the getaway car has a flat tire.”<\/p>\n
Star Trek Into Darkness<\/strong>, released in 2013<\/p>\n Kirk has to reveal the Enterprise to primitive people in order to save Spock’s life. Starfleet is unhappy — since he broke the Prime Directive — and they demote him. Meanwhile, a Starfleet officer named John Harrison attacks Starfleet Headquarters when he knows a bunch of top people will be there. Harrison has used a portable transwarp beaming device to beam himself to the Klingon homeworld — Kirk’s orders are to go there and take him out.<\/p>\n This is the 2nd movie in the reboot series, after 2009’s Star Trek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Highlights include<\/p>\n It’s another action-packed adventure. Despite its overall dark tone there are moments of levity.<\/p>\n The Enterprise crew are still young and somewhat unsure, and they’re faced with difficult moral and ethical choices.<\/p>\n I may have liked the movie better than I did the first time. When I rewatch Star Trek<\/strong> movies I tend to focus on the good parts.<\/p>\n It’s a great movie, but it could have been better. What was the motivation for going into darkness? That was unnecessary. What was the motivation for rehashing some of the plot of a previous movie in the series? It should have been going where we haven’t gone before.<\/p>\n This was the last time Leonard Nimoy played Spock, briefly — he was too sick to participate in the next movie and later died.<\/p>\n Stars Karl Urban, Zo\u00eb Saldana, Peter Weller, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Directed by J.J. Abrams (Star Trek<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Michael Giacchino is amazing.<\/p>\n\n