My opinion is...

YES.
Mostly.
Kinda.
Well, yes, mostly...kinda.

EVERYONE--and I mean EVERYONE, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Chekov, ESPECIALLY Uhura, Carol Marcus in a nice callback to Star Trek II and, of course, Evil Sherlock (and I'll still call him that just in case you haven't seen the movie and seen who he REALLY is)--ALL get some great, great lines and character development...

I LOVE that the first ten minutes feels exactly like you've come in to see the exciting conclusion to an old Trek episode, just on a super-high budget...that's just really fun as an opening, and pays dived ends; it works as just an enjoyable standalone stinger to open the movie and give it the feel like these are the sorts of fun-if-campy worlds and missions and aliens that the old TOS crew used to meet all the time, while the ending ties in surprisingly well with the end of the movie...

And from there it just builds and builds and builds and REALLY builds...has incredible momentum 2/3 of the way in...

...Until it becomes, well, a lot like a certain other Trek film (down to reusing the same lines!) and that was a novelty yet a cheap one...it's sort of fun to see these lines and this situation flipped...

...and thank goodness they ARE flipped, because if it was a straight cut and paste I think that would have really hurt the film, more than it arguably already does, this IS probably the film's weakest point, not necessarily with the reveal of a certain character--I was actually really excited how it looked like they were going to really invert that for a good 10, 15 minutes and approach this character very differently--but just that it DOES become so much like another Trek film that you're left wishing just a bt that they'd not pushed it quite that far...

Because I'd argue that it still works and works very well--but it feels so much like a remake for a good 10 minutes at least, after all that (relatively speaking) originality, and the way they really did let the characters grow a bit in this one, and actually have to face some consequences for their actions and evolve as characters (and there's a good balance, they already feel more like the beloved TOS crew at the start of the film, and by the end of it they definitely have a lot of that feel to them, so they both start off the film in a more polished state than in the 2009 flick and finish in an even better place)...

But for ALL of that, it has a satisfactory conclusion, and satisfying...but not quite as satisfying as it could have been, I think, had they kept their ground and either kept the trajectory they were going with the villain and let him be reinvented this way, or else let him still be running free at the end of the film, thus setting up a cliffhanger and some emotional tension there--

That's maybe the best way to sum things up:

You feel satisfied by the ending (I did, and I DO like that there's at least a chance for the villain to come back) but it's also an ending that could have used a bit more weight...ESPECIALLY considering what source material they're borrowing so heavily from.

But, all in all, I thought it was good, a definite improvement over '09 in most regards, all the characters are, again, better, the plot (the part they actually wrote rather than recycled) is better than '09...

Maybe Trek 13 in 2016 can just take a bit more chances now that they have two solid flicks under their belt, and not rehash the old material so much (I liked the winks at the old material for most of the time...it's just when you get to actually quoting line for line another movie...even though they're not doing it BADLY, they're doing a pretty decent remake...after all that buildup, I'd have preferred something a bit more original, with a bit more weight, or both, and no none pays to see 90% of a movie and 10% of a remake. But oh well.)

8 Spocks out of 10 for me (and Benedict Cumberbatch--PLEASE...take on the world FOR REAL...between Sherlock and this...please, just become Master of all Mankind already and get it over with, we all support you...) ;)

No one else wants to geek out? Ah well...

Haven't seen it yet.

I thought it was good and liked the tip-o-the-hat to an earlier film from a different time-line, but I thought the '09 film was better, mostly because this one had some glaring plot-holes. That said, I saw it with my wife in two-d and I'm going to go back alone to see it in three-d (three-d gives her headaches).

Was it an evil Sherlock? It seemed a lot like regular Sherlock to me. Almost identical, in fact.

The trouble with the film is that I've seen a lot of it before. I'm frankly bored of seeing flat ships turn on their side to go through a vertical slitty gap that every claims is too small even though it turns out not to be. I'm becoming equally bored of new Star Trek's fondness for people falling off narrow walkways. Pretty much every scene seemed to be a cliché that has been done almost exactly the same in countless other films.

in fairness it looks good and, despite its flaws is rather fun. But it ain't great.

my only real complaint was when the Enterprise lost power and thus lost internal gravity and everyone started falling towards the planet they were in orbit around. That's not how that actually works.

But then, the StarTrek universe is known for having bad physics.

I was disappointed by the Klingons. Also by the apparent ease with which anyone and their mum could just fly a ship somewhere vaguely near Klingon space, fire a few nukes at their home planet, and win the Klingon war before the Klingons even knew it had started.

The '09 film had bigger/more plot holes in my opinion (Plot Holes the size of Black Holes!)

;)

And yeah, that was a bit odd that they got so far into Klingon space without a big firefight...they're probably saving a Kirk vs. Klingons showdown for the next one (and again, I'd be perfectly happy if they thawed Khan out again, Cumberbatch just does such a good job...the worst thing I can say related to him was Spock's shouting, ahem, KHAAAAAAAAN... O.o Oh, come on, movie--by that point, yeah, you're kind of doing a shot-for-shot remake of TWOK, but still, come on, now, SPOCK can't shout Khan's name like that...it'd be like seeing Sulu ask someone where the Nuclear Wessels are...it's just...wrong, and really weird...)

Saw Star Trek Into Darkness with the family today...

...damn it--it was BETTER the second time! It really does tie in so well together, and once you've had the shock of them basically remaking a certain scene from another Trek movie...it's just amazingly well done.

Spock's right, there's no such thing as miracles--but my Trekker father and I AGREEING on this being AWESOME comes close...shit, I might have to see this one AGAIN in theatres, I love the hell out of this movie (I'm not used to being so happy with a movie, this is odd...)

Careful with the spoilers. I saw this afternoon in IMAX 3-D but even some hardcore fans won't see it till tomorrow being as tomorrow is Saturday.

That said, I felt it was one of the best movies in both timelines. Classic elements and characters from the original series and Kirk getting it on with two chicks with tails... Wish we could have seen more of them! Also using.lines from the original timeline bt with different characters saying them was great. Finally, the use of ships I recognize from STO was incredible. I've flown a dreadnaught class as well as a Klingon D4 in game so it brought the franchise back in line with the elements from TOS as played in game nicely.

Re: Rehashing material... This is actually fine by me considering it is an alternate timeline and so characters and events are bound to come back.together but with slightly different juxtaposition and this didn't just recycle from one film, but also a concept from Insurrection, that is, a Starfleet officer gone rogue (Admiral Marcus here) plus references to a part of Starfleet we didn't learn of in the other timeline until DS9.