JJ Abrams has taken up his bet with flying colors: his “Star Trek” (2009) should delight both fans, the well-named Trekkies, and laymen, to whom he claims to be addressed first and foremost. Better still, it reconnects with a tradition of ambitious and good-natured blockbusters.
The film imagines Spock and Captain Kirk’s youth and rise to command of the starship “Enterprise”. The first, half-man half-Vulcan, precedes the action by reflection, the second, a fiery daredevil from Iowa, only obeys his instincts, both are interpreted by virtual strangers (Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine) who should not remain so.
Here, each character speaks to us, each action scene is underpinned by a human issue (at the risk of giving birth in the middle of a space battle bordering on the ridiculous); every blink, like the appearance of the historic Spock, Leonard Nimoy, serves the story. The humanist message and the optimism of the original series are thus denied by this inventive, funny and exhilarating entertainment.
Friday January 20 at 10:45 p.m. on RTL9. American science fiction film by JJ Abrams (2009). Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana. 2:01.
