The third film in the “Star Trek” reboot entitled “Star Trek Beyond” started hitting theaters late in June and the movie is still showing in many theaters in the world as of this time.
Based on the consensus of the reviews for the movie by film critics, “Star Trek Beyond” is actually a film that every Star Trek fan wants except for a minor faltering in the end.
But overall it is a good movie and very appropriate to mark the celebration of the franchise’s 50th anniversary this year. It also made fans feel that the Star Trek adventure could even go for another 50 years and beyond, notes HitFix.
Unlike its counterpart in the original series, the “Star Trek Beyond” reboot began when the USS Enterprise and its crew were already in the middle of their five-year mission in space, which makes it quite good.
Chris Pine as Captain Kirk is excellent again just like the first two films in the trilogy reboot. Critics actually think that Pine is very good at deflating his own persona but once he is back onboard the USS Enterprise with his crew, the movie shifts to high gear.
“Star Trek Beyond” has one of the best-written sequences in any “Star Trek” film ever, featuring a long lingering look at the reality of life onboard a ship that spends years away from home. USS Enterprise is on its way to a rendezvous with the USS Yorktown, a gigantic deep-space starbase.
A simple encounter leads to the USS Enterprise being sent to investigate a mysterious event and from there, everything else spins out in the film.
Idris Elba as Krall is also very excellent and with Director Justin Lin at the helm, fans quite expected that “Star Trek Beyond” would be full of fast-paced action and suspense the same way he did with the “Fast & Furious” films he directed previously.
Bringing the fun to the franchise
Simon Pegg, the comedy actor who is described as a space film geek, shared screenplay duties for “Star Trek Beyond” with Doug Jung.
The duo has succeeded in bringing back the fun and the freshness on the franchise that was sorely missing in “Star Trek Into the Darkness” when it was released in 2013, despite Simon Pegg breaking his own rule in screenplay writing, notes C/Net.
“Star Trek Beyond” is a Star Trek movie through and through, right down to the techno-babble-infused plan to deal with Krall’s fleet of enemy ships. That one sequence is going to go down in history as one of the most divisive in “Star Trek” history.
The real magic of the movie lies in the fact that Justin Lin, Doug Jung, and Simon Pegg know that it is okay to have fun with the “Star Trek” franchise and “Star Trek Beyond” clearly delivered the goods.
The younger versions of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov all delivered well during the movie. There’s a genius to that particular combination that wasn’t even fully in place when the original series began. It was only gradually that the core ensemble was cemented.
Simon Pegg, who co-wrote the screenplay for the third installment of the “Star Trek” reboot film franchise officially titled “Star Trek Beyond,” revealed in a previous interview that the film combines the philosophies and tenets of the Star Trek universe with bigger set pieces and exciting stuff.
The actor said that the movie features Captain Kirk and the guys doing stuff that fans have not seen them doing before. But it was done not at the expense of other stuff.
Pegg also assured fans that “Star Trek Beyond” is very intelligent as well as a hopeful projection of their own futures which he said is something that they hang on to.