By Emilio Frenk
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Sofia Boutella and Idris Elba.
Rating: Good.
Captain James T. Kirk, Commander Spock and the crew of the USS Enterprise are back again in the third installment of the series “Star Trek Beyond” only this ocassion J.J. Abrams is Producing and Justin Lin who is well known for directing movies such as Fast and Furious, Fast 5 and 6 directed this installment.
Captain James T Kirk, played for the third time by Chris Pine and his crew also led by Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto) will be in a mission, where Kalara, a survivor asks for help in order to find her ship that got stranded in a nebula.
The fleet agrees to help her but just when are going into the nebula, an army led by Krall (Idris Elba) attacks the Enterprise causing the ship to crash impacting to a distant planet.
Now Captain Kirk and company must figure out a way to stop Krall before it´s too late and it will be the end for The Federation and for the whole civilization.
Star Trek Beyond besides being pure entartainment it does engage you from the beginning to the end, specially if you are a big Star Trek fan.
One of the differences that this movie has previous to the other two is that has more comedic elements since Simon Pegg was one of the writers of this installment. You will notice that has many elements of Pegg´s humour in this one.
The action sequences are so well made an engaging that this movie entertains from beginning to end. Also the use of the music and songs like “Sabotage” from the Beastie Boys they do work.
The story is real and the directing is sharp in all the extention. There are elements that were not needed in my opinion and the dialogue was cheesy but it didn´t bother me and still I was engaged.
I recommend this movie to see it IMAX if you have a chance since you will enjoy more the visuals of it.
J.J. Abrams has proved once more that he is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Sci-Fi genre and here it was no different. Justin Lin proved also that he can direct an action movie without making it fake.
I still say that “Star Trek: Into the Darkness” is the best movie so far of the installment but this indeed delivers.
As you know this represented one of the last films that we will be seeing Anton Yelchin, who died tragically this year and Leonard Nimoy who played Commander Spock in the show died when the movie was on the phase of pre production and the movie is dedicated to both of them.
Star Trek Beyond is one of the best movies of this summer and hope you enjoy it as much as I did.