Star Trek Beyond Review: 8 Ups And 2 Downs

7. The Enterprise Attack Is Jaw-Dropping

You’ve seen glimpses of it in the trailers, but they can't prepare you for how good the sequence early on in the film where the Enterprise is actually destroyed is. It's just fantastic.

It’s a really methodical sequence. Justin Lin takes his time, slowly taking down the ship and forcing the crew to face increasingly mounting problems. It runs for a good ten minutes and in that time it establishes key plot points, develops the characters and gives us a taste of what villain Krall’s thinking’s like.

Obviously Justin Lin’s proven himself before in constructing big action sequences, but this is one of his best. He takes his time escalating the conflict, methodically taking down the ship and forcing the crew to face increasingly mounting problems. The whole thing runs for about ten minutes, and in that time it establishes key plot points, develops the characters and gives us a taste of how villain Krall thinks.

And, of course, it's thrilling and engrossing; he effortlessly conveys the layout of the ship and how each area affects the others, and the camera flips from inside to out constantly (his camera work across the movie is great by the way, especially in the all-angled Yorktown).

Best of all, when it’s over you’ve still got a good hour or so of other good action to enjoy.

There’s little isolated moments within it that don’t 100% work, but that’s a something for the downs.