Reviews

I like the other Transformer movies... but this was almost unwatchable.

How did they screw this up so much? Their are too many story lines running side by side (with little or no resolutions)... the editing is terrible, even the CG is bad.

The pre-title opening was nice... but then it got slow... and then slower, then the story started to jump around... the editing started to become patchy.. then the story and script just got completely tied in a knot... and somewhere along the way it turned into a bad SyFy Channel movie. (actually, I've seen better dialog and better scripts on SyFy movies)

The CG just kept getting worse as the movie progressed. Then it just... ends.

Save your money. Not even worth watching on TV, unless you are a real Mark Wahlberg fan. He managed to pull off a nice performance despite all the things done wrong in this film.

When I first heard about this show, I was looking forward to it, but after just a couple of episodes, I was just embarrassed. The show plays to the lowest common denominator of what people think a 'redneck' is, and if the show and the events therein are not entirely scripted (which is not uncommon for a LOT of 'reality' shows), then this show has managed to find some of the biggest morons on the planet. And what's worse, is apparently, that's what the TV audience wants to see (judging from all the similar 'reality' shows on TV that are full of nothing but the dumbest people on the planet screaming at each other or doing things that are beyond stupid). I was sorely disappointed with the show.

I was going to only give it one star, but I realized that as bad as this show is, and what an insult it is to the real 'rednecks' and people who hunt and live off the land, there are even worse shows out there, and I had to leave room to give them even a lower rating.

I had very high hopes for this film, but instead of giving us what they said they were going to, the origins of Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, Abrams and the writers decided to just throw 40 years of Star Trek cannon in the trash, and make up their own story.

I will agree that Star Trek needed to be 'updated' to bring in new fans... but what the writers did was cheated. Yes it would have been hard to write a 'prequel' to a story that has 40 years of history... but to just throw all that history and cannon away in the opening scenes of movie was just lazy and pathetic.

This was NOT a Star Trek movie, regardless of what the characters names may have been.

Then on top of that, there were many things about the film that I found very out of place or out right annoying. So many of the sets on the Enterprise looked like real life factories or breweries... turns out they are.

But most of all, I hated all the 'lens flare'. It's in almost every scene in the movie. Most directors do everything they can to AVOID lens flare and use it only as rare artistic touch.... it turns out that Abrams LOVES lens flares and actually had people shinning bright lights up into the cameras to create them when they wouldn't have been there naturally. I've come to see his love for lens flares in other films like 'Super 8'.

Setting my dislike of Abrams style, and the fact that he chose to simply ignore 40 years of Star Trek history, it's not a bad sic-fi/action film.... but it is NOT a Star Trek film and I doubt very much if I will bother seeing the sequel that is currently in the works. (or any other film by Abrams... can't stand his style of directing)