The makers of this new Star Trek installment did everything right. The trailers and advertisements leading up to its release were phenomenal. The casting was beyond brilliant. The film itself did not disappoint in any respect. It was sleek, stylish, superbly portrayed and acted and my God the future is a shiny place! If you haven't seen Star Trek yet, go and enjoy yourself, my good friend!

Now let me rain on everyone's parade.

1. They utilize time travel to tell the story. Yeah, part of it is super cool because of the great guest spot, but is anyone else out there getting tired of modern sci-fi using time travel like a crutch for an old man who is supposed to be on his deathbed, wobbling hopelessly, yet resolutely, towards the bathroom?

2. Captain Nero (Eric Bana). Lame name. He's the super bad guy and you won't see him do much more than run. I'm serious. There are scenes that last nearly 20 seconds showing Nero running down halls and jumping. They even make you painfully realize just what they're doing by showing fast cut scenes of his feet pounding the floor or his face puffing almost labored breaths. There are like 3 scenes like this.

3. It's a fucking mining ship. They even say it themselves. They are miners who happened to return in time to see their planet destroyed. Why does their ship look like that? Why in the world can they not be harmed by a federation ship? Why do they carry the most amazing artilery ever conceived??? Answering they come from the near future is not sufficient.

4. I know an amateurs amount of information about astronomy, but everything I know about black holes tells me that the ending is not plausible. Yeah yeah, I'm a super geek for bringing physics into a sci-fi movie review. Especialy physics about black holes, something that we have only collected loose theories on. And I will also admit that I know scarce little about the ion cores of federation starships... but still, not possible.

5. I said the future is shiny, but saying that every direction you look will cause a new iris flare to appear in your sight is more on target with the future presented in Star Trek.

That's the long and short of it. A couple painfully obvious things that might cause a few people to scratch their heads, but the drool inducing action scenes, constant close-up presentation and visceral special effects in between will quickly make you forget all that trivial nonsense.