If J.J. Abrams' recent Star Trek sequel is anything to go by, we should all think long and hard about how much we want to rely on the otherwise talented filmmaker when it comes to Star Wars: Episode VII. We know, of course, that Abrams is a technically accomplished director, and he's proven that time and time again - where he doesn't always get it right, however, is in the script department, which is what lead to the unavoidable disappointment that is Star Trek Into Darkness. No, this isn't a terrible movie, but why is it so plot hole-ridden and unnecessarily complicated? Forget for a minute that Benedict Cumberbatch gave us one of the best villains of the year in the enigmatic John Harrison, and concentrate on the way that Star Trek Into Darkness makes no sense at all - could it really have been that hard to craft a storyline that wasn't so horribly redundant? Though movie-goers constantly like to think of J.J. Abrams as a blockbuster director in the Spielberg vein, there's none of the carefulness that defines that legendary filmmaker's canon: this is Abrams at his most hacky; a real-step down from the 2009 original, too.
