Okay so Section 31 was not well received. It wasn’t well received by Star Trek fans and it wasn’t well received by film fans. Now how it plays as a Star Trek film is something that I have no stake in. I have literally never seen a single episode of Star Trek so the overarching context and the world it’s supposed to fit into means absolutely nothing to me. So we will be judging this solely as a film. I will be critiquing it with the same criteria I do anything else.
https://vocal.media/geeks/section-31
Oof…yeah. Everything from plot to structure to the actual filming is so terrible. The act structure is virtually non-existent. The plot itself is predictable, trope heavy garbage. The fight scenes are truly horribly choreographed and terribly filmed. They actually gave me a headache. It was shaky cam without actually being shaky cam. They wanted to remind you that this was a Star Trek film so badly when they really just needed to focus on the film itself. Plot first then adjust to fit into the world building. It’s really not that difficult. I don’t think I even have a numbered score to give this. I can’t sum up how bad it is with numbers. Just don’t waste your time.
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