Xyga wrote:You know that very well already but it depends on the expectations, Beyond is better only for those who are at least a little familiar with Star Trek, because it's told like one of those two-episode features and has all that campy stuff.
For everyone else looking for a 'modern' space Sci-Fi flick packed with action and flashy visuals, Into Darkness is absolutely the best of the three (Beyond will look cheap in comparison)
You mean run of the mill Hollywood dreck? Sure Into Darkness was right up there. It may as well have been a different movie in a Star Trek skin.
Beyond is definitely closest to the charm of the TV series, while still fulfilling the CG spectacular that children with lo-fi brains need to feel anything.
But more importantly the script in Beyond is just half-decent, which instantly makes it superior to Into Darkness. Simon Pegg being the scribe is obvious from scene one, and although it's humour heavy, it never grates or loses traction.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Beyond is the only one of the three to successfully achieve genuine cast/character chemistry, reestablishing it as it was in the original show and movies. The previous two have a groundwork for ensemble character cohesion, but Lin and Pegg actually finally made it work properly in Beyond. They actually feel like a team, there's a warmth there, and as such it's a much more worthwhile Trek adventure.
Pros are the action, and the fact that they tried to actually explain his origin (maybe a bit too much) and worked into the fact that there is the US-Japan Peace Treaty which gets sticky when the SDF tries to do anything, illustrates the impotence of Japanese bureaucracy. Cons are the layer of commercialism, execution of just about everything, the "American" Japanese girl who can't string an English sentence together but speaks fluent Japanese and randomly breaks out into shitty English, caricaturish characters. It's basically what you'd expect from a Japanese film.
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