ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

SashaDarko Not-intellectual-in-a-slightest action movie, which also gives no cyberpunk vibes, it's rather a classic sci-fi thing about machines vs. humankind, and this one almost fully copies Terminator plot (good cyborgs help human rebels to stop other cyborgs from taking over the planet, they dropped the time travel though) and most likely was made after the success of Terminator 2 (they even brought the same visual effects specialist who made the cyborg in Nemesis to look and move exactly like in Cameron's movie). Although Terminator itself is nothing original, so I wouldn't say Nemesis would be a rip-off of it, but I think the success of the T2 movie and hype around cyborgs at the time played the role.First thing to notice in the movie is how everyone can't shoot properly at all, both "programmed to kill" cyborgs and "experienced" humans. They always miss the targets, even if they stand just about a meter away, it looks extremely ridiculous. But the movie gets even more ridiculous pretty quick when Shang Loo comes into the frame, becoming a unintentional comedy. Very serious poker-face men with black suits and black glasses chasing two humans and missing all the time even with some sort of a shotgun-grenade laucnher weapon (no sharpnel, no blast waves). One time this weapon shoots like it has nuclear bomb bullets, other time they're like the weakest grenades, whatever fits the action on the screen and keeps the heroes going. The way Alex returns the card from cyborg makes him look like a Mowgli, not to mention the way he shoots their pursuer from grenade launcher making a flip, it's just over the top. Truth to be said, they seem to embraced the ridiculousness they put on the screen, there's a funny scene when a granny kills a cyborg with a gun she had in her purse. The movie tries very hard to look COOL, watching this on VHS being a teenager back in a day probably was a blast. The actors do their job just fine for a movie like that, it's certainly not a disaster on the performance front. The editing is good, visual effects are great. The locations chosen for the movie are beautiful and they used very well, it's one of the strong feats of the movie. You'd recognize Brion James, who probably played in all b-movies out there, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who later became Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat, and Thomas Janes, who later became a great The Punisher. It was good to see them all here together.7.5/10 sashadarko.com

Prismark10 A muscular Deborah Shelton naked for most of her scenes, that is worth a few stars on its own! As for the rest of the movie, this is a low grade B cyborg film as Robocop meets Blade Runner meets Terminator type with hints of influencing The Matrix trilogy with some of the suited bad guys.In the early 21st century there is an America/far east hybrid super-nation, cybernetic beings have been perfected, various gangsters run amok and a group of cyborgs led by Tim Thomerson plan to take over from humans.However there is another group of cyborgs planning a resistance and cyborg cop hunter turned freelance killer Olivier Gruner is caught in the middle of a chaotic situation.Nemesis takes all the elements of familiar sci fi films of the 1980s to make a rehashed B film. Tim Thomerson, a veteran of these types of movies plays a solid bad guy, Brion James who was a replicant in Blade Runner tries out another European accent, Shelton gives sass and sex appeal and later on Merle Kennedy adds more eye candy.The plot is confusing as everyone seems a bad guy or shifty or just plain ruthless. Some of the action scenes vary from inspired, even ahead of its time to bog standard. However some of the scenes are laughable especially when cyborgs get blown up and Gruner does not go to check to totally finish them off.The finale where we have stripped down cyborg going after our heroes is straight from Terminator with stop motion effects that Ray Harryhausen could had done better half asleep.This is a hokey at times inept film, made for straight to video where it would hopefully garner a cult appeal.

speakers The first thing that strikes you about this badly-made 'futuristic' movie is that the acting is appalling, even the normally reliable Brion James has a ludicrous cod-German accent. Sadly, the lead actor has the charisma of a sack of potatoes, not helped by the terrible dialogue he's made to utter, most of which consists of swearing.There are many set-pieces, normally involving large quantities of ammunition at close quarters, most of which misses the target. But for all the number of times they tell him he's a brilliant hit-man, he keeps getting caught very easily.The plot, what there is of it, only appears complicated because it is normally relayed by people shouting it at each other; when it finally becomes clear, you realise how ludicrous and pointless it all was. Oh, and the special effects are not.

unbrokenmetal Alex (Olivier Gruner) is a cyborg working for the police against terrorists - he thinks. When he is told it actually is a fight of robots against human beings, he starts looking for proof. „Nemesis" apparently was successful enough to "inspire" three sequels, all directed by Albert Pyun, too, but starring Sue Price instead of Gruner. That doesn't mean it had a new recipe, though. „Nemesis" takes familiar elements from hits like „Terminator", „Robocop", „Escape From New York" (the time bomb!) etc. (all movies which spawned sequels themselves already) and thus creates an hour and a half of breathless action - in the first ten minutes, they spent as much ammo and fireworks as other movies during the whole running time. Simple, but it works. To be fair, there are tries to add a bit of depth when Alex wonders if he still can feel anything, whether he is able to decide what's wrong and what's right... and one wonderful joke scene when grandma takes a gun to shoot a cyborg and complains an old woman can't safely walk across the street anymore. But that's the occasional slowdowns you require for an action movie before you start the next gunfight. Action is what it is all about, I mean: what do you expect when the leading lady is named Max Impact (Merle Kennedy)? The special effects are much better than in the sequels. I watched the 4 Nemesis movies (which I watched first in the 1990s) again now in chronological order for my reviews and voted 7/7/5/5.