I am not of the old school Trek crowd, but I have a pretty strong appreciation for the original series and I love the whole franchise. This film is really something new, and something different altogether, and if you miss out on it you're missing out on the film of the year. I loved it, and it brought back the vitality and power of the original Star Trek without hamming it up. The cast is perfect. I don't understand the criticisms that have been leveled against it as "lower intellectual quality", since it doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It's an amazing action movie , and I love it for that.