Star Trek

J.J. Abrams has breathed a whole new life into the Star Trek franchise with the latest addition opening last weekend. The film stars Chris Pine as James T. Kirk, Heroes’ Zachary Quinto as Spock, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, and Eric Bana plays villain Nero. The movie picks up from the roots of their legendary characters and tells the story of their first mission together and brings the Enterprise crew together with an unsuspected twist to the story as far as the relationship with the crew of this movie with the crew of the original series relates. The pieces start to fall in place when James T. Kirk is introduced as a bar brawling drifter who happens to be son of a great captain who died saving his son and wife. After hitting on Uhura and brawling with her federation peers he falls into enlisting to try and do better than his dad. As the move progress he meets his future crew mates one by one and the movie shows you how things aren’t so euphoric with this crew. The movie has a surprising amount of humor mixed in with the expected amount of heart pounding action and edge of your seat excitement, and a supporting cameo role by Lenard Nemoy. All in all this was a great movie and I was never a trekkie.


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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Hugh Jackman returns to the role that broke out his career in the latest edition to the X-men movie franchise as the super healing claw wielding wolverine, alongside Liev Schreiber as Sabertooth, and Danny Huston as William Stryker. There are no disappointments with this movie at all. Anyone who has seen the other movies or knows the wolverine story should have some sort of expectations for the ending because this is a prequel to the wolverine character that has been seen in the other three movies, but as far as the story and the action is concerned I was impressed and surprised as there are no predictability in the story line. From the beginning of the movie the writers take it and make it their own with changes to the comic book story line as they did in the other X-men movies, and delivered a great movie. The character relationships and bonds are clearly defined and developed to believability as well as the actions in response to events that occur in the movie. The relationship between Sabertooth and Wolverine spanning over a hundred years comes to a climactic event which is the basis of the movie. Comic book fav characters contribute to the story like Jackman's love interest, Lynn Collins portraying Kayla SILVERFOX, and helpful accomplices like John Wraith and Remy LaBeau, or Gambit, played by Black eyed peas Will.I.am and the covenants Taylor Kitsch. Over all the movie delivers great fight scenes, special effects, believable actors, and a great story.

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