Star Trek Into Darkness

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Cumberbatch's villain is the film's undisputed high point, drawing near-universal admiration, but the rest of the film divided critics sharply — some found it a propulsive, entertaining blockbuster while others saw it as hollow mimicry of better Trek, particularly in its reworking of Wrath of Khan material. Off-screen controversies over the gratuitous underwear scene and the whitewashing of the Khan character added further criticism beyond the reviews themselves.