Film Review – Please Stand By

Perhaps the only thing impressive about “Please Stand By” is how production actually manages to secure footage and logos from “Star Trek” to tell a different story about the famous franchise. It seems a little effort was spent on the picture to create its reality of brand worship, but not enough was allotted to the rest of the endeavor, which offers uneasy bouts of quirk to help butter up what should be a terrifying tale of unsteady independence. Perhaps the original screenplay by Michael Golamco was something far more in-depth when it comes to the details of mental health, but director Ben Lewin doesn’t know how to translate such careful characterization to the screen. The “Star Trek” love is amusing, but the rest of “Please Stand By” feels frustratingly short-sheeted. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com