I liked it well enough for what it was. However, it didn’t stick close to the canon, imo.
I was a little slow figuring out it was Khan, though some other things that were about to happen were quite obvious.
“I liked it well enough for what it was. However, it didn’t stick close to the canon, imo.”
Actually, the problem is it stuck too close to canon in that it was - as the reviewer alluded to - a cut and paste job from Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and the TV episode Trouble with Tribbles.
The first of the Abram’s movies established a new timeline of events that set the story in, essentially, an alternate universe, wherein Kirk saves the ship and Spock yells “Khaaaaan!” That was the effect of the original Spock having come back in time and screwing everything up.
I was actually quite bored by this movie because it was such a rehash of the earlier movies. The special effects were great, but special effects can’t save a script that was a cut and paste job from movies that were written 30 years ago. This wasn’t a sequel so much as it was a remake.
The problem is, Nicholas Meyer’s original Wrath of Khan was so good, this one pales by comparison.