Star Trek Beyond (2016)

I think Abrams set the bar too high for me in 2009. "Beyond" is not bad, but it fails to recapture the magic that made the reboot so satisfying. The visual effects are still top notch, and the film delivers some wonderful eye candy, but it all just feels a bit hollow. It is as if they wanted to tell a smaller story, but were forced to shoehorn in a spectacle, and the resultant film does not quite work as either.

It needed more character moments, more for Sofia Boutela to do, and plot beats that land more like a drama, and less like a music video.

6/10
Content is acceptable for tweens