Star Trek

Title: Star Trek
Year: 2009
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman, based on the TV show by Gene Roddenberry
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Karl Urban
Music: Michael Giacchino
Length: 126 minutes
Synopsis: a time-traveling Romulan has a vendetta against Spock
How I saw it: in the theater, today
Subjective Rating: 7/10
Objective Rating: 8/10 (points off for story and cinematography)

Fun and fast paced. There's some nice comic relief, and loads of geek-pleasing moments. The action scenes are a mess. The plot isn't very interesting, mostly just getting the characters re-introduced - which is fun for a fan, since it's extremely well cast (especially Karl Urban's Bones) and the characters and dialog are well-written - but there's still not much plot. It's not a science fiction movie, and it's not a submarine movie like previous good action versions of Star Trek have been. In place of those elements, there's standard loud, fast-moving-camera dumb action. They've got the characters down right, now they just need to put them in a movie.

ETA, 11/18/09: post updated/replaced here