Brilliant continuation of the saga and a wonderful twist on a familiar story! Great acting from all involved especially Benedict Cumberbatch and Karl Urban!

You know, I kinda liked the first movie in the reboot series while my friends that saw it in the cinema back then with me absolutely hated it. We were similar Star Trek fans and enjoyed the franchise up to that point equally as much I'd say. Yes, I liked the first one even tho it was a farcry from the older material and left the feeling that the writers and Abrams didn't really "get" the Star Trek universe and just kinda created yet another "new" action franchise.

But this? I'm almost disgusted by the pandering and ridiculous try at "fan-service" in this movie. The references, the "role-reversal", the whole copying of material and characters from older movies with "a twist" and what not. A shame. How about something original and not another silly revenge story THAT WE ALREADY KINDA HAD?
WHY create a alternate universe if we are going to re-tread old ground and that even badly?
The movie was a mess, I don't know what the writers were thinking, not even gonna mention Abrams, can we just not give him movies or tv shows in the future please? (and that ship crashing into Alcatraz... what was he trying to tell us there?! good lord...)

As a Star Trek fan I feel insulted after watching this and if they are not going to come up with something new and original for the next movie this certainly was the last one I watched in this alternate timeline and will just start to pretend that it never existed.

The presence of khan felt forced. And it added nothing to the story. Everything khan should have been left out.

Forgive me but I have to do it. The thing that is fundamentaly wrong with Abrams` Trek is it´s all about > being cool. Everything in the movies has to stand up to this mantra. [spoiler] Is it cool to hide a Starship inside an ocean on a planet ? Yes. Is it Star Trek. No, it´s not [/spoiler] Newsflash Mr. Abrams: Star Trek has made billions of fans all over the world for half a century without being cool. It doesn´t need to be. It´s not Marvel.
Furthermore, they create a new timeline so that they can do something new but all they are really doing is leeching of ideas from the original and simply twisting the plots in them around. That is not my idea of doing something new.
Again way to much lens flare (its JJ Abrams). Again great CGI (It´s ILM).
If it wouldn´t be calling itself a Star Trek movie I actually would give it a higher rating. But I can´t. It is better then the first but only slightly. I can´t see past the fact what they did (are doing) to the characters. This is in essence Star Trek for the Marvel generation.

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Star trek for RTARDS. For a startrek film 3/10

For an action film 7/10. It seemed to be one over the top action sequence to the next.

I knew I was in for a bad ride when the enterprise was parked hidden in the ocean. Why was it not in orbit?

It's not the idealistic, brainy, Star Trek that we grew up with. This is a fast moving action flick made for the Summer movie season. Just like J.J. Abrams's debut attempt at recreating the "Star Trek" world a few years ago, "Star Trek Into Darkness" provides all of the characters that we grew up with but gives each their own distinct moment. Some of the moments actually seem very out of character, but the whole movie is very entertaining.

To enjoy this you have got to leave the legacy of Star Trek at the ticket booth. This cannot be a continuation of the original Star Trek series or for that matter, the original movies. It's a new Trek for a new audience. Sit back and enjoy this for what it is, which is a lot of fun.

Rewatched this for Beyond. Better than people think. Gets a bad rep for some reason.

Ppphhhffrrrrttt o.g. Khan had sweeter pecs

This is worst ST movie! Plot does not work, characters are flat and juvenile and the whole thing is just a no go. I couldn't even watch the whole movie because the plot had too many holes in it. This was as bad as the ST one movie where they remade "Vegar" ST episode and that was bad! Try again! #ShiftvW8

Not too good. Better to just go back and watch Wrath of Khan again.