The Star Trek(2009) was undoubtedly a greatest adventure of young crew's maiden voyage and its success was blessing and curse in disguise for the sequel. With the strong star caste, awe-inspiring trailers 'Star Trek Into Darkness' definitely becomes a can't miss movie. I felt movie should be titled 'Star Trek - Wrath of Khan', as a viewer i was expecting a sad ending as the movie was titled 'Into Darkness' but Abram like Happy Endings. So, we get to see some emotional moments with Pine being alive at the end.
The movie starts with confrontation between Kirk & Spock where both are resisting each other's ideas of violating rules of federation & friendship.
The plotting is broody and nonsensical, exhaustive & massive action scenes seemed like director has pulled a page out of the Michael Bay series. I found story a little non-coherent, jumbled, loosely patched with many voids and lacked definitive yet Abram managed to bring it to a happy ending with frantic moments & exciting gravity-defying fights.
Spock is half-Vulcan and too-much logical, while Kirk is hot-blooded and overdo off humanity, their friendship is kind of main stream of the story but yeah not in a cheesy 'b-romantic' way.
Cumberbatch was good as Khan, I really liked his logical war game with Spock, even if Spock got the better of him. It demonstrated him to be very intelligent and highlight his earlier claim that he was "better", as Khan had already demonstrated that he was a more physical force than Kirk.
The little touchy emotional 'cheesy' moments of Quinto with Zoe & Pine patches up a lot many lazy-cheats of Adram.
Pine and Quinto were good. The crew was in general fine, even if they didn't always have something to do.
In all a good enough sci-fi thriller to watch because of impressive people involved and their splendid work, yet with a heavy heart i would say it lacked J.J Abram's Glory.