Star Trek fans will love this film–it is everything this lifetime Trekkie hoped it would be. The new actors are dead on without being impersonaters–Pine is a good Kirk without being William Shatner. The effects were incredible (see the IMAX version if you can). The plot served well for its intended purpose–resetting the franchise–but it’s a good story in itself, and well told.
Non-fans who like action and science fiction will like it as well. If this had been the very first Star Trek story ever made–if no other episodes or films or books existed before this one–it would still be a hit.
Go see it now.