This isn't really a Star Trek film, indeed apart from the occasional mention of the Federation and a very brief snippet of the theme music you'd never know. Michelle Yeoh plays Philippa, a character from one of the many TV spin off series apparently, who is some arch villain hiding out in some night club in space where she is recruited by a black ops team called Section 31 to recover a super weapon that she designed so it can't fall into the wrong hands. This cues a routine chase and fight sci-fi film that fails to bring any real excitement or thrills, is all very routine and some quite wooden performances. Yeoh gets to do martial arts, there's some weird aliens around and that's about it really. This is a very poor man's Guardians Of The Galaxy and an example of the increasing attempt by various studios to drag out the various sci-fi franchises to the point where it serves no one except extremely die hard fans. I like Star Trek but this isn't worth anyone's time.
The worst “Star Trek” film I have ever seen. I am a fan. Reviews were negative but it was worse than I could imagine.
I'm a Star Trek fan, but this has to be the worst movie I've ever seen. Definitely the worst ST movie and possible the worst in general. It was so bad I fell asleep watching it at home and was so unborhered when I woke up from a 20 minute nap I didn't bother to rewind to see what I missed because I just didn't see the point of wasting my time, I just wanted it to end. Storyline and characters are awful. Acting is terrible. There's no point to the movie, no big bad villain to build a franchise on. Really poor humour. This is not what ST fans want from the franchise!! It's Section 31 ffs, it should be dark and nasty and gritty. The dark side of the federation. Not a love in to make me feel like hugging a tree and turning vegan to save the planet.
I can honestly say I would absolutely NOT recommend this movie to anyone. Better to have no ST than this ST.