Star Trek

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Ok, more substantively ... Alex, what don't you like about Urban's take on Bones McCoy? Most people seem to love his characterization. I'm in that crowd. What's wrong with you?

Two things, one his fault and one not so much his fault.

1. I thought he was trying too hard to to an impression of DeForest Kelley. And, in my opinion, he didn't do a good one. I think I said this earlier but to me it sounded like he was doing an impression of DeForest Kelley doing an impression of Jack Nicholson. It just grated on me.

2. I really didn't like the slapstick involved in getting Kirk on the enterprise so since he was central to that I'm sure he was tainted and then not given enough additional work in the rest of the movie to overcome it. The one big spotlight moment being just so he could toss out a cliched (not one of those pieces of Star Trek tradition that I like) "Dammit <name>, I'm a ... not a ..." line. Especially since he said "Dammit <name>, I'm a doctor not a physicist" and then immediately followed it up with an exact understanding and restatement of the implications of the physics mumbo jumbo he was responding to.

Maybe he'll grow on me in the next movie if given more to do.