After seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness back in 2013, I swore off the Star Trek film franchise forever. It was a mess of lazy writing, poor character development and the most pandering nerd references I’ve ever seen. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci should be famous at this point for their terrible screenplays to blockbuster movies, ranging from Transformers to The Legend of Zorro (the 2005 movie) to The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Yet somehow, Into Darkness earned an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so when Beyond scored an 84% I was still wary.
The word coming out of Beyond, however, was that if you hated Into Darkness, you would love Beyond. That’s only half true. Continue reading “Quick Cuts: Star Trek Beyond”
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