What makes a movie good? I believe, if you're able to enjoy the movie, while you watch it. What makes it great? Is, you are able to enjoy it after you step out of the theater. STAR TREK BEYOND, has both. That's what makes it awesome!
***Spoilers***
The Enterprise is midway through its 5 year excursion. Captain Kirk is getting disillusioned with his monotonous journey in the unending universe. Spock wants to leave the ship, to go serve Vulcans, in the light of death of Ambassador Spock. Sulu, who's revealed to be gay, misses his partner and daughter. Others are suffering through the pain of this long long journey, in their own way. After a refill at Yorktown (New York), they are asked to head over for a rescue mission to a nearby nebula. Before Kirk can assure himself of this being a trap, they are attacked by a swarm of droid ships, destroying the Enterprise ship and capturing lot of crew. Kirk & Chekov, Scotty, and hurt Spock & McCoy are stranded on the planet. They eventually unite with the help of Jaylah, an alien scavenger and warrior, who has made home of the USS Franklin, an old starfleet ship. But now they have to search for and save the rest of the crew, along with Uhura and Hulu.
This whole thing was planned by Krall, a ruthless military commander, who's on the planet and wants an artifact that was aboard Enterprise. He eventually manages to get it, and is planning on attacking the Federation, Yorktown first. Kirk manages to save his crew, with help from his team. They they manage to fly Franklin, to save Yorktown from the attack by Krall. Turns out, Krall was once human captain of Franklin who went insane during his time stranded at the planet. Kirk battles Krall in life support hub, and eventually manages to defeat him, narrowly avoiding death himself.
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Chris, Zachary, Karl, Zoe, Simon, John and Anton (may he RIP!) are great as usual. Idris Alba is a great villain, and does amazing job. Sofia Boutella as Jaylah is wonderful. The performances of entire cast are great. The action sequences are breathtakingly good. And the Star Trek Nostalgia is all there. Director Justin Lin does a wonderful job of making a wonderful film.
I went to watch the film with my dad, who doesn't know much about Star Trek. This was his first Star Trek project he saw. And tell you what, he really enjoyed it. I even saw him gasp through the film, with joy. And that says a lot about appeal of this film. Go, watch it!