While "Watchmen" was a movie that I really liked but wouldn't recommend to others; "Star Trek" is a film that I didn't really care for but wouldn't tell people to avoid. It seems a lot of people like the film but I thought it was lacking in pretty much every department and also had more holes in it than I could overlook. Even worse, there was nothing in it that I really latched on to. I can't say that the issues with the film took me out of it because I was never invested. There just isn't enough going on to make you overlook the flaws; a fact that becomes all the more obvious when you put a second's thought into what happened.

"Star Trek" is a witty, well-made brain dead action film without much action. The conflicts are all fairly childish and the plot is basically "Let's get everyone together... Oh, and there's a guy that nobody really knows about blowing up planets." The key to resolving almost any conflict is convenience. Nothing happens logically; things happen because they are needed to serve the end goal of getting everyone in their place.

The film also doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. Karl Urban's Dr. McCoy borders on parody while other moments make it seem like it wants to be an action film. In the end, it feels like a very well made 'tween movie. 

I was going to add a longer response to the film but, in the end, people who like it will just say "Oh, those things shouldn't have bothered you". But the convenience, cliches, and insane amount of lens flare were just too much for me to take. And with nothing else to keep my mind from focusing on these things, the film fell flat for me.