Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Woodyanders 2027. Japan and America have merged together into a powerful super nation. Cybergenetics have been perfected. Various terrorists, gangsters, and outlaws fight amongst themselves. Shifty and ruthless cyborg Farnsworth (Tim Thomerson in peak villainous form) plans to overthrow the humans. He faces opposition from a band of renegade cyborgs lead by the fierce and formidable Julian (a fabulously fiery portrayal by the gorgeous Deborah Shelton). Half-man, half-machine cop Alex Rain (nicely played with stoic resignation by Oliver Gruner) finds himself caught in the middle of the whole chaotic situation. Director Albert Pyun, working from a complex and involving script by Rebecca Charles, presents an arrestingly bleak and gritty vision of a possible near future that could be right around the corner, maintains a constant snappy pace throughout, stages the exciting and explosive action scenes with heart-pumping verve and tremendous skill, and further spices things up with an amusing line in sharp sarcastic humor. The able acting from the sound cast rates as another major plus: Marjorie Monaghan as soulful renegade cyborg Jared, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as sardonic crime lord Angie-Lee, Merle Kennedy as scrappy, spunky waif Max Impact, Brion James as Farnsworth's slimy German henchman Maritz, Thom Matthews as the maniacal Marion, Nicholas Guest as the smarmy Germaine, Thomas Jane as sleazy undercover cop Billy, and Jackie Earle Haley as electronics whiz Einstein. The special effects are quite neat and impressive. The exotic globe-rotting locations add some extra flavor to the lively and engrossing proceedings. George Mooradian's agile, polished cinematography makes inspired frequent use of a smoothly gliding Steadicam. Michael Rubini's dynamic rocking score also hits the bull's eye. Gruner's conflicted Alex and his struggle to retain his humanity in an increasingly cold and harsh world ensures that there's even some touching pathos amid all the wild action and ferocious violence. A pleasingly slick and stirring winner.

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.

Frank Markland 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)

yeodawg This sexy, slick, sci-fi, shoot them-up, is a bit unpolished, but sure is fun to watch. Kick-boxer Olivier Gruner is so busy bucking them down he hardly has time to show some love round house kick style. The movie takes place in a post apocalyptic future wasteland, where having cybernetics implanted in you is as common as liposuction. O.G.plays an undercover L.A.P.D. cop who is sent to assassinate the leaderof a rebel group of Cyborgs, reported to want to control the remaininghumans. Once he shoots the leader the shooting doesn't stop and he's has a running gun battle with her fellow Cyborg rebels. He's mortally wounded and during recovery he has time to reflect on how much of him is human and how much of him is Cyborg. Being recruited by the rebels that say they're trying to save humans from rogue Cyborg officials. He's also asked to return to L.A.P.D. to fight the good fight against the rebels. Not knowing who's telling the truth he drops out. He goes mercenary and sells his skills on the black market to the highest bidder. This starts his downward spiral. The only way he can uncover which conspiracy is the truth, is to go back undercover for the L.A.P.D. Sexy: It starts off sexy with the opening scene being the hero and rebel leader amorously making out and disrobing each other, in a hotel hallway both planning on killing each other. Slick: Half this movie is Hooligans in 500 dollar Italian suits, loading and cocking tricked out machine guns. Shoot them up: Cyborg with belt fed 50 Caliber machine guns and mini-guns attached to their bodies that fire until lock back. This movie had more was made when Desert Eagles and H+K MP-5's were cheap. The scene in "Underworld" where Kate BECKINSDALE shoots through the floor to escape the Lykens was knocked off (sampled, stolen) from this movie. Unpolished: this movie was obviously written for a bigger budget. Pedestrian special effects don't do it justice. But this movie doesn't apologize for nothing. The movie poster says it all, he hero and a hot Cyborg chick holding tricked out MP-5's, enough said.