Enemy of my enemy

Star Trek into Darkness

Crit

This guy is going to turn into Ricardo Montalban how? As in the series reboot of a couple summers ago, this spends a great deal of time looking "ahead" to stuff that was on TV and in movies decades ago, and the second time around, that device is not quite as amusing. The film starts with an interesting and timely premise, as the Federation flirts with assassination via long-range missile, and Spock (Zachary Quinto) has to goad Kirk (Chris Pine) into weighing the immorality of such a strategy, but ultimately this becomes a retro-introduction to Khan, and that's a big problem. The villain is supposed to be the youthful (though not young; long story) version of a guy who in 1982's Wrath of Khan was a barechested Ahab, ultimately for hate's sake spitting his last breath at Kirk, but this guy is boring and bloodless, showing considerably less emotion than Spock.

Trailers

• Elysium--Neill Blomkamp (District 9) directs a story of 22nd-century social inequality and revolution.
• Anchorman: The Legend Continues--I really need to see the original, don't I?
• World War Z--Damn, this is gonna be an apocalyptic summer, ain't it? Even Man of Steel (saw an expanded trailer, in 3D, with this generation's Brando, Russell Crowe, as Jor-El) is all Dark Knightish.