A brilliant film that helped define a genre

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Star Trek is an unnecessary reboot in my opinion. JJ Abrabs is a talented filmmaker and it is easy to see his enthusiasm (he is almost like a fanboy giddily recreating all his favorite childhood movies) and rigor but the reboot and especially the cast will always suffer from comparison with the original TV series. Furthermore, although the film is interesting and gets everything sorted- in as much as one can in less than 2 hours- there is a rushed feeling to the proceedings. The special effects are good but we've seen it all by now, the razzle and dazzle only goes so far. The Star trek reboot isn't a bad film as much as an unneeded one.

JarJar Assbrams! Stop this!I have NO Idea what StarTrek is You have NO Idea, what Physiks ist and you have NO plan, what you can do in Space, and what NOT! Idiot!

This film is so stupid, so tacky, so cheesy and so non-Star Trek that one has to ask: 'Does JJ Abrams even know what Star Trek is?' or 'Does JJ Abrams have any familiarity with Star Trek?' What does this guy have on Hollywood bosses that they let him rip and tear films like this? The cheap effects just compound the problem.

I didn't much enjoy The Original Series with William Shatner, but I thought this film was brilliant. How they devised the 'alternate reality' was ingenious as it leaves all of the original TV series' and films intact and is the writers way of nodding with respect to everything that had come before.I think it allows people, like me, who did not grow up with The Original Series on TV to begin appreciating Star Trek where just watching Shatners series on DVD would not give the same energy as it had.