Review Round-Up: Star Trek: Beyond is being praised for honoring the original series and incredible action

This summer has been packed with movies both good and bad. We have gotten Captain America: Civil War, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and we still have many more on the way! This week will mark the release of Star Trek: Beyond, the third film in the rebooted series and will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic series. But, how much does it relate to the Star Trek we know and love?

Over the past few days, reviews have been coming in for the first film in the series since J.J. Abrams departed to go work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the reaction seems to be overwhelmingly positive. The film stands at a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing and has 37 reviews (34 positive, 3 negative). Everyone seems to agree that the film ups the action to make it a stand out summer blockbuster film while still honoring that overall tone and feel of Gene Roddenberry's original series .  As someone who isn't a big Star Trek fan, these reviews make me really want to see it. Below you will find excerpts from some reviews that talk both positively and negatively about the film.

"Star Trek Beyond, like most of the rebooted properties flying around our movie theaters, delights in nostalgically resurrecting iconic characters and tweaking them anew." – Associated Press

"Though the action-packed trailers might suggest he simply launched that manic vibe into space, Lin and scriptwriters Simon Pegg and Doug Jung made a clever plot move that gives Beyond the most breathing room for its characters in years." – Toronto Sun

"Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond shows the franchise once again is pulled in two directions, wanting to both be a glorified television episode and a muscular action movie. … The action is big, but the story is slight." – Forbes

"While he may have seemed like a counterintuitive choice to take over a Star Trek movie, Lin is absolutely in his element whenever the film becomes about bodies and vehicles moving swiftly through space – which is often." – Village Voice

"Ultimately, Beyond is a movie about characters – and character. But that's half the battle. The other half of the battle is… battle. And Lin, who has such a strong track record with vehicular mayhem, doesn't bring his "A" game." – Entertainment Weekly

"Lin's movie works best when approached as a relaxed, somewhat playful two-hour expansion of one of the old '60s episodes." – Chicago Tribune

"Beyond goes from being a fun action movie to a great Star Trek movie, and one that's the closest of the reboots to capturing the spirit of the original series." – Access Hollywood

"The kind of movie the bloated second one should have been: a one-off romp – a super-sized version of an old episode, just with more hot-dogging motorcycle stunts and stuff going boom." – Metro

"I can think of no better way to celebrate Star Trek's 50th anniversary than with this film, which embraces everything that's great about the series" – IGN

The current score for the film makes it the second highest rated rebooted Star Trek film (third highest of the entire series) with the 2009 reboot at a 95% and its sequel, Into Darkness, at a respectable 86%.

In related news, Netflix announced yesterday that they would be releasing all 727 original episodes of all the Star Trek TV shows on the massive streaming service before the end of 2016. A sequel for Beyond has also already been greenlit and will star Chris Hemsworth reprising his role as George Kirk, father of James T. Kirk.

Star Trek: Beyond releases this week on Friday, July 22nd.