Another watch-along monday! We screwed our courage to the sticking place and made valiant effort to watch the third of the JJ Abrams Star Trek movies – Star Trek: Beyond. High was the anticipation for this film when it came out in 2016, but alas, it proved to be well below most people's expectations.
Why? Who can say? Maybe because Abrams didn't return to direct this one because he was already wrapped up in making the new Star Wars trilogies. Maybe it was because the storyline was hard to follow or, when followed, fathom. Maybe because there wasn't much "beyond" gone to in the movie – just one planet in a rocky nebula. Heck, maybe it was just the lack of lens flares.
Either way, it maybe isn't as good as its predecessors. That said, it has some wonderful comedic turns, offers plenty of that ol' Star Trek feeling. There are good turns by each of the main characters, some odd choices, a touch of Idris Elba's character chewing the scenery and, last but not least, an epic Enterprise-crash-into-the-planet sequence.
Surely that is enough. Enough to watch along, at least!
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