The sort that is entertaining, even though it has plot holes. Much like the first one.

But the last 10 percent I found to be frustrating, pandering bullshit with no follow-through.

I was enjoying myself quite thoroughly despite plot holes (he teleported himself to the Klingon homeworld from Earth using a portable transporter device that had no receiver on the other end? Marcus teleported his daughter off the Enterprise right through its shields, but couldn't do that with Khan? And later, Khan couldn't beam his torpedoes off the Enterprise because the shields were up? We can beam people down onto moving objects but we can't get a lock on them to beam them up because the object is moving too fast? Even though Chekov in the last movie beamed up someone who was falling at terminal velocity?) ... where was I?

Right, I was enjoying myself despite the plot holes, but then the final part of the movie was ... well, I didn't like it. I didn't need them to recreate the ending of Wrath of Khan, even with the people switched. And then I really didn't need them to immediately undo the emotional impact of that in such an obvious manner that even as Kirk was dying, I knew they were going to do it, and thus did not care about Kirk's death. I didn't need Khan's blood to somehow be capable of restoring people from the dead, and even though Khan was created 300 years ago, no one ever figured out that the blood of these superbeings could do that.

And now that we do know that his blood, and in theory the blood of all 72 of the others, can restore people from death ... how much do you want to bet everyone in the universe has conveniently forgotten about that in the next movie?

I didn't need Spock to have a fistfight with Khan, and I didn't need him to be able to do some sort of ninja enemy-flip move to end it, but whatever. What really bugs me about that part of the ending is twofold.

First of all, once again, Earth somehow has zero ships around it that can help with anything going wrong. In a world full of spaceships and enemies, they have no way to shoot down a crashing ship such as Khan's, and no ships available to even, y'know, check in on what's going on with this giant, secret ship in Earth orbit that's facing off with the Enterprise. I'm not sure what was with the debris field that close to Earth either, but whatever.

Second, Khan crashed his ship into Starfleet headquarters. He utterly destroyed it, potentially killing all of Starfleet's top commanders. And the movie ... doesn't acknowledge this. At all. Doesn't even bring it up again. We get Spock fistfighting Khan, then we get Kirk resurrected, and then we cut to a year later where Kirk is giving a speech about what it means to be a captain and some people fold a flag, then the Enterprise sets off on its five-year mission. What the hell happened with Starfleet headquarters? That should be a big deal! But the movie does it for the spectacle of it, and then promptly ignores it, and all but forgets it ever happened. No follow-through, no consequence.

That seems to be my running issue. No follow-through, no consequence. Kirk dies? No consequence. Khan's blood can bring people back from the dead? No follow-through. Khan committed mass murder? Just freeze him up again, no follow-through. Starfleet headquarters got utterly destroyed by a falling spaceship? No follow-through; maybe you imagined it.

I sound like I hated the movie, but the rest of it really was pretty good fun. The actors were good, Khan was good, the action scenes were good. I had an enjoyable two hours at the movies. But seriously, that whole ending sequence. Ugh.