70. "It's a fun movie." In response to In response to 0 Sun Jul-31-16 07:59 PM by obsidianchrysalis
There really didn't seem to be much development of the motivations of the characters recent history - Kirk deciding at first to become a Vice Admiral and Spock deciding to go to Vulcan or even Idris' character decision to go rogue.
That being said, it didn't seem to detract from the action. The movie might have had a greater payoff if the storylines become more than the sum of their parts, but I really enjoyed the movie.
The technology of those mini-fighters was creative. I don't remember any similar approach a filmmaker has used in a recent movie. The closest thing would have been the 'squiddies' in the Matrix movies, but that was almost 15 years ago.
I didn't find a problem with the action sequences editing, but I've also given up hope that directors pay attention to the fundamentals of blocking and editing action sequences.
I wish there could have been a way to honor Checkov or give his character some closure. There's no way they could have known during filming that Yelchin wouldn't be in another flick, but it would have been similar to what happened in Fast 7, I think.