BY JOE TYRRELL
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
MOVIE REVIEW
Semi-auteur J.J. Abrams returns to the cineplex on the second leg of his ongoing mission to dumb-down “Star Trek,” with the new “Generic Space Shoot ’Em Up: Into Darkness.”
“Star Trek” is the James Bond of space operas, and as it approaches its 50th anniversary, Abrams’ recent contributions often get positioned as a “re-boot.”
But “Star Trek Into Darkness” is more like an old boot, one of the many bits and pieces that screenwriters Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof have scavenged from previous episodes and movies, notably “The Wrath of Khan.”
