Spock - Zachary Quinto

Quinto did a good job as Spock. At times, I felt he might have been parroting Nimoy a bit too much, but I thought he captured the essence of the character pretty well. And every time I started to think he was too wimpy for the role, his character would get pissed and thrash someone.

Zachary Quinto impressed me as Spock in the latest Star Trek film, perhaps mainly because I had low expectations for his acting talent. I've seen a few episodes of Heroes and he always struck me as a rather one-dimensional evil character in the role of Silar. As Spock, Quinto conveyed the restraint of an emotional Vulcan/Human in an impressively nuanced way (nuanced is of course a relative term here. It's a summer blockbuster, after all :P). I imagine he benefited greatly from having the mannerisms of Nimoy to study, but I have to give credit where credit is due.