Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Simply A Masterpiece

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Nemesis is starts during the future year of 2027 in Los Angeles as cyborg cop Alex (Oliver Guner) shoots a robotic terrorist who has vital information on the 'Red Army Hammerheads' terrorist organisation, while trying to escape with the information member of the Red Army Hemmerheads blow him to pieces. Jump forward 'Six Months Later' as Alex has been rebuilt by the LAPD & is more machine than human, Alex has become a data smuggler but his old LAPD boss Farnsworth (Tim Thomerson) forces Alex into one last assignment. An assignment to find & capture his former partner Jared (Marjorie Monaghan) who has sold top secret information to the Red Army Hammerheads who plan to assassinate top Government officials. Alex has no choice but to accept, the LAPD fitted a bomb in his robotic heart & if he steps out of line, bang. However Alex has been used as a pawn in a wider & more sinister plan by the cyborgs who intend to overthrow humanity & rule the Earth themselves...This Danish & American co-production was directed by Albert Pyun who for me is one of the very worst director's still working today, he maybe isn't quite as bad as either Jess Franco or Jim Wynorski but he's right down there with them & just because Nemesis is considered one of his best film doesn't stop it from being any less crap or make it any more worthwhile. The script is a mess, it tries to mix all the futuristic films of the time that dealt with cyborgs & lawless futures such as Robocop (1987) & The Terminator (1984) both of which are far superior to this awkward mess of a film. The biggest problem with nemesis is the lacklustre story (cyborgs in the future want to take over), the seemingly random way it develops (even though the film states that Alex is a really bad data smuggler the LAPD want him to undertake a vital mission), the questions that never get answered (why do the cyborgs want to replace humans with perfect robotic duplicates that act & look exactly like the human they are replacing, what is their big plan, what is the Red Army Hammerheads big plan & why is Alex so important for it?), the events that are never explained (why does the LAPD allow Alex to go to Rio de Janeiro & become a data smuggler, what's with the pointless puppy to dog scene at the start?) & a really dull plot that gets about five minutes of exposition the whole film between boring scenes of people running around shooting at each other. The script is totally humourless & is really dull, the dreary politics between the cyborgs & humans almost put me to sleep, there's never any real indication that Nemesis is set in the future apart from the cyborgs themselves & who is controlling Alex? Who is controlling Farnsworth? The whole script is just loose, it occasionally throw's in some dialogue that is supposed to sound serious about cyborgs wanting to take over the planet but otherwise Nemesis is a plot less & uneven sci-fi thriller with a few forgettable action scenes tossed into the mix.The opening gunfight was alright, even though the bad guy's can't hit Alex from about ten feet away in open ground. I mean Alex is running though a building site & these bad guy's are right behind him shooting but none of them ever hit him. He, of course, hits & kills them easily. There are three separate sliding scenes, Alex slides down a rubble pile, he slides down an old fun park slide & then down the side of a hill. There are a few explosions too but almost all the so called action here is just people who can't aim properly shooting at each other. The climax is a real rip-off of The Terminator as a cyborg metallic robot skeleton has a fight with Alex while hanging out the back of a plane. Don't ask. Despite being made almost a decade later & despite the advances in special effects the robot fight at the end of The Terminator looks a thousand times better. The film is shot with very muted colours & the usual bright neon lighting that so many sci-fi films seem to have. There's not much blood or gore although there is a bit of nudity if that's what your after.Although filmed between November & January 1992 Nemesis wasn't released until the beginning of 1993 & you can see why, shot in Los Angeles, Arizona & Hawaii. The acting is alright but what on Earth is Brion James doing? Why the bad German accent? Future Hollywood star Thomas Jane has a small role & why kill of the babe in boots at the start? They even put her on the front of the DVD box yet she is killed off within a few minutes, she was the prettiest one & has the biggest gun. Nice going Pyun you klutz.Nemesis is a terrible sci-fi action thriller with dull action scenes, an almost random plot stolen from other much better sci-fi action thrillers, a future that looks about twenty years out of date already & some questionable special effects. Not good, not good at all so why on Earth did Nemesis spawn no less than three sequels? Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995), Nemesis III: Prey Harder (1996) & Nemesis 4: Death Angel (1996) all again directed by Pyun.

Albert Pyun is hardly known for his stellar directing skills so it came as little surprise when I began to watch this to find it a horribly disjointed and muddled affair. Indeed, such is the case until about a third of the way through before things do finally start to settle down! Certainly I'd previously heard many good things about the film as regards its action sequences but in truth, said scenes don't really kick in until the final third or so(!) bar one or two OK sequences such as the start. Having said this, when the said scenes do take place, they admittedly do so in style; Indeed, whilst we have to wait for the action to kick in, when it does, it doesn't let up with some superb stunt work on display, big and beautiful explosions and bullets flying left right and centre. Also of note is some very good special effects work such as one android/cyborg who's face opens up to reveal a gun - yikes!Fans of Gruner may be a little disappointed initially to learn that the kickboxing champ hardly performs any of his trademark martial arts in this but as if to make amends, he performs many of his own stunts - always a sign of a true trooper! Finally, keep an eye out for a pre-fame Thomas Jane in this who gets some early exposure in this......by exposing himself!!!! Oo er!Well worth a look (the film that is, not Thomas Jane's - um, oh, you get the picture!)

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.

Olivier Gruner stars as Alex Rain, a cyborg who has lost all his faith in humanity after barely walking away with his life after a gun fight with terrorists, However his former employers want him back and they want him to get rid of a renegade agent and to insure that he does this deed, they implant a bomb in his heart, not impressed by his former employer's antics Rain goes AWOL and joins the rebels. There are many similarities between this and Pyun's other movie Cyborg. Although where as I remember everyone in Cyborg laughing at the antics on screen, I remember everyone walking out of this one saying how good it was. I however was no fan. I thought the narrative was a bit hard to follow and while the action sequences were well staged, I often found myself distracted by the circumstances surrounding them. (Same thing with Cyborg.) However Nemesis is better than Cyborg, there is more depth in the script however there isn't enough exploring of the depth that could have made this thing great. Indeed there are some very good moments to be found here but had Pyun explored these (Mainly the relationship between Gruner and the renegade agent Jared(Played well by Marjorie Monaghan) as well as Gruner's dilemma to being a cyborg) Nemesis might have really been something. Nemesis has it's fans and I can see why, I just was often bored with the corporate clichés and confused narrative. Ed note:However it's still way better than any of the sequels, so if you must watch one from this prolific series, see only this one. * * out of 4-(Fair)