To be totally honest, I expected nothing less than the train wreck it was. I group a couple of directors in the "Always crap" section of my mind and JJ Abrams and M. Night Shamalan(I'm not going to bother to look up the correct spelling) are major players in there. I haven't liked a single thing they have done,. Nothing, and I said out loud when I saw that JJ had been given the "Keys to SW", "Oh boy, it's gonna be a sh*tstorm!". And oh boy, was I right. He blew ST totally, too. The first one wasn't too bad, the casting was fine, but he couldn't even cast a decent Khan? Seriously? The whitest of white guys name is Khan?
When I saw the rumors it would be Cumberbatch, I laughed. Until it wasn't a rumor.
I wouldn't hire him to direct a 5 year old's birthday party video.
But I'm an old guy and there aren't all that many movies made today I actually wouldn't be pissed if I paid to see them. The last movie I saw in a theater was Godzilla in 2014, and my main comment was "It would be nice if Godzilla showed up a little more!". But it was better than the 1998 mess. I work with a lot of 20 and 30 somethings and I eventually see a lot of the movies at work and I just hate so many of them.