"It’s the first of the Kelvin Universe that felt like it wanted to be a 'Star Trek' film and honors the legacy of the series while exploring what makes it different." [...]
"It’s not just that the movie is beyond stupid, it’s that it embraces and furthers the desensitization of modern audiences by exacting complete, immeasurable destruction while showing zero reaction to it." [...]
"Rules of the monster genre also do not apply here—going the route of 'Ex Machina' or 'It Follows'—as a modern genre flick focused more on characters in an intimate scenario than the jumps that a more demanding audience expects." [...]