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Last night I when out to see Star Trek: Into Darkness. I was disappointed to say the least. This was just plain lazy writing.
I love Star Trek, even the new “alternate” timeline, and I also love the BBC sherlock. So, imagine my joy when they announced Star Trek into Darkness, staring Benedict Cumberbatch as the new bad guy. Immediately rumors and fan boy speculations about Khan’s return to the Star Trek universe were all over the place. I sided with those who said, “of course not, that’s just too easy”. While Khan was the greatest villain of all time, I just assumed that the Bad Robot team would kinda want to leave that story alone. I WAS WRONG.
As soon as Dr Marcus opened the torpedo to find a cryostasis human, I realized that this was the “re-imagined” Khan story. From that point forward, the movie was predictable and a bit flat. The big twist is, is that Kirk sacrifices himself in the core to save the ship. The Kirk death scene was almost word for word the same as the dialog from Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, but with the roles reversed (and without the belief that Kirk might actually die).
This movie fails, mostly because I have already seen it. The “new” Khan is super cold and calculating, a brilliant tactician and physically superior to the normal humans in the movie, but what made the original so brilliant, was that Ricardo Montalbán made Khan drip with charisma and sex. When it is Spock who screams out “KKHHAANN!!!” in “into Darkness” it feels like a mockery of the original.
All in all, I think I was just disappointed by the laziness of the script. If you are going to remake a classic, it had damned well be better than the original. I hope to the all powerful that this is not a sign of what is to become of the already bastardized Star Wars franchise.
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