Summary
It ’s been eight long time sinceStar Trek Beyond , the good of J.J. Abrams ' threeStar Trekmovies , was released . When the motion picture was released in 2016 , I was n’t particularly activated , given the disaster that wasStar Trek Into Darkness . Still , I trooped along to my local multiplex on chess opening night , desire that , finally , this would be theChris PineStar Trekmoviethat managed to capture the liveliness of Gene Roddenberry while also being an accessible summer blockbuster . Although I was still unbelieving about this , I did concede that the signs were promising .
Although he was n’t an obvious fit for the franchise , director Justin Lin ’s employment on theFast & Furiousmovies raise that he could handle the beatify action set objet d’art that had become a key part ofJ.J. Abrams’Star Trekmovies . Simon Pegg ’s craze sitcomSpaced , and his subsequentCornetto Trilogyof moving picture proved that he was a screenwriter who bust his nerd credential on his arm . If he and co - author Doug Jung could equilibrize Pegg ’s nerdy surfeit with a solidStar Trekstory , then we ’d be in for a treat . Thankfully , Lin , Pegg , and Jung ’s oeuvre onStar Trek Beyondsucceeded on all social movement .
Star Trek Beyond set up a sequel for Chris Pine ’s Captain Kirk and the Kelvin Timeline crew , but it ’s 8 years later on and we ’ve yet to see Star Trek 4 .
Star Trek Beyond Is The Best Of The Kelvin Timeline Movies
It’s a perfect blend of blockbuster excess and Roddenberry-style optimism.
Star Trek Beyondlearns from the mistakes made byStar Trek Into Darknessto fork over a blockbuster action moving picture that stay reliable to the look of the dealership . WhereInto Darknesswas inspire by the desolation of Christopher Nolan’sBatmanmovies , Star Trek Beyondowes a debt to 2012’sThe Avengers . LikeThe Avengers , Star Trek Beyondis an ensemble piece that gives every fundamental member of the Enterprise crowd a genuine hero minute . InStar Trekterms , Beyondis the Kelvin Timeline movie that comes closest to recreatingStar Trek IV : The Voyage Homea.k.a " The One With The Whales " .
Star Trek Beyondwas dedicated to the memory ofStar Trek IV : The Voyage Homedirector and Spock actor , Leonard Nimoy .
Idris Elba ’s scoundrel , and the climactic conflict to preserve Yorktown also feels like a substantial blockbuster rise on Zachary Quinto and Benedict Cumberbatch ’s fight setting inStar Trek Into Darkness . That ascertain Spock and Khan Noonien Singh jump from hovering freighter to hovering bottom against a drab Earth backdrop . Star Trek Beyondgives us a Zero - G battle between Idris Elba and Chris Pine in a collapsing space station . It ’s more dynamically direct , more in - character because it ’s Kirk not Spock , and crucially , feel moreStar Trekthan the Earthbound clout - fest fromStar Trek Into Darkness .
I Wish We’d Got More Star Trek Movies Like Beyond
It finally allowed Chris Pine to step out of William Shatner’s shadow.
Star Trek Beyondwas the picture show I wanted when J.J. Abrams reboot the timeline back in 2009 . It told a sassy tale , with familiar characters , retoolingStar Trekfor the cinematic landscape of the mid - to - late 2010s . That ’s what these flick should have been doing from the beginning , rather than getting hung up on existingStar Treklore . While Idris Elba ’s villain and the USS FranklinconnectBeyondwith the Bakula era , those disclosure are Easter ball for die - hard fans , not turned into a major plot gunpoint to alien the modal picture show goer .
I ’d argue that the reasonStar Trek Beyondperformed poorly at the box spot was becauseInto Darknesswas so incomprehensible that audience were n’t keen to amount back .
The problem withStar Trek into Darknessand , to a lesser extent , Star Trek 2009 , was that they professed to be approachable to a newfangled audience , but layered on heap of lore and continuity . I ’d fence that the reasonStar Trek Beyondperformed poorly at the loge situation was becauseInto Darknesswas so incomprehensible that audiences were n’t not bad to fall back . Leonard Nimoy pass the woolly mullein to Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto inStar Trek 2009was a touching send - off . Leonard Nimoy info - dumping about Khan Noonien Singh bear witness the handwriting did n’t do enough to sell Benedict Cumberbatch as a villain .
Kelvin Timeline Star Trek Movies
Domestic Box Office Gross
Rotten Tomatoes Score
Star Trek ( 2009 )
$ 257,730,019
94 %
Star Trek Into Darkness ( 2012 )
$ 228,778,661
84 %
Star Trek Beyond ( 2016 )
$ 158,848,340
87 %
finally , Star Trek Beyondshowed the way fore for the movies ; standalone , smash hit - scale adventures for the gang of the USS Enterprise . These adventure can play in the gargantuan plaything box that is theStar Trekuniverse , but a good story should n’t come second to newspaper headline - seize bequest character . Sadly , the box office performance ofStar Trek Beyondappeared to instruct Paramount Studios all the wrong lessons about the picture enfranchisement , as its continuation stay on in evolution hell eight years afterwards . It ’s disappointing becauseStar Trek Beyondwas the Kelvin Timeline gang ’s finest hour , and they merit one last hurrah .
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