AverageJoesDriveInPodcast Oh, glorious cheese! This falls into that category of so bad it's good. Direct to video, rental goodness. You have a pile of recognizable B movie stars who many would be hard-pressed to name, but would know their faces, over-the-top special effects, terrible (albeit entertaining) dialogue and a score that feels like it was stolen from one of the Rambo movies. If you took Terminator, Cyborg, Johnny Mnemonic & Blade Runner, starring a budget Jean Claude Van Damme knockoff, then add a touch of Cannon Films for good measure & mixed it into a cocktail you'd have this film. One thing Nemesis manages to be is entertaining. Maybe not for the right reasons, but if you grew up perusing the rental isles of your video store and had a love for low budget sci-fi/action films you need to check this out. This isn't something everyone will appreciate, but those who do will enjoy the hell out of it. Is it a good movie, not at all, is it entertaining, yes, yes it is.My Rating: 5/10

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

Paul Andrews 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.

Tinmancr Nemisis has all the making of an average action movie with a its own style Also has plenty of comedy tons of action and just kicks a#$!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grunner is a far better actor that he is given credit for, he does lack actual skill but makes up for it with real abilities fighting especially. This is a landmark of 80s-90s SCI FI back when a b movie could still change the genre. Merle Kennedy adds a certain interest to the movie for different reasons. She makes a good sidekick, b movie extraordinare Tim tomerson also leaves a memorable performance. A must watch for fans of Terminator, Robocop, The only people who should dislike this movie are those who dislike, nonstop action