Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin, 2016)

The helm is handed over to a pure action movie director and the scriptwriting to fanboy and serial maker of bad career choices Simon Pegg, and the end result equals meh. The Enterprise gets totally wrecked again by another embittered baddie with a grudge against the Federation, Idris Elba struggling to project a persona from under piles of generic reptilian latex, and the explosion count may well have reached a series record. It's not offensive in that it doesn't shit on anything that went before and when it does occasionally pause for breath and allow some interaction between characters to take place, it manages to generate some indulgence towards its cavalcade of silly derring-do. But this franchise really is in danger of disappearing down the toilet if the course isn't readjusted quickly towards a better guiding star.

5/10