Star Trek

New York Times Movies“A testament to television’s power as mythmaker...” Mr. Abrams doesn’t treat “Star Trek” as a sacred text, which would be deadly for everyone save the fanatics. But neither does he skewer a pop cultural classic that, more than 40 years after its first run, has been so lampooned...

Total Film “An exhilarating, breathless, lavishly mounted adventure...” Abrams has hit it out of the park, through the clouds and somewhere into hyperspace, delivering the first genuine blockbuster of the year and setting the benchmark for what’s to come...

Little White Lies“More balls than brains...” Abrams stacks action sequences, fitting them together like Lego bricks into one giant superstructure glued together with adrenaline...

National Post“Not yet reviewed”

The First Post“Not yet reviewed”

Channel4 Film“Star Trek really is a playful movie...” JJ Abrams' Star Trek has fist-fights, phaser shoot-outs and epic space battles. The warp drive hits you in the solar plexus...

The Times“Made me sob with pure pleasure...” It’s the vintage gripes and emotional chemistry on the Enterprise that make this film such a comic joy. The lasting irony of the televised Star Trek series was the way it wrestled brilliantly with irrational human behaviour...

The Telegraph“This is a grand success...” Abrams thinks well in sequences, has world-class editing at his disposal, and knows when to give the audience what we want – a grippingly tense mano-a-mano on a fiery Romulan drilling platform...

Guardian“Commercial cinema can still deliver a sledgehammer punch...” Unlike George Lucas's massively encumbered and obese Star Wars prequel-trilogy, this new Star Trek is fast-moving, funny, exciting warp-speed entertainment and, heaven help me, even quite moving...