Nemesis [Blu-ray]

Nemesis returns in blu-ray format for the first time in gran fashion. Movie Review: Nemesis at it's core is a sci-fi action flic where robots are trying to replace humanity. Humans augment themselves with cybernetics for combat. Alex Rain is basically a Blade Runner hunting down robots but after sustaining injuries becomes more and more robot. The acting is bad but in a cool way. The effects are cool yet cheap. Good things about the movie is the action is great and everyone is really good looking. It has a cult following and deservedly so. Blu-Ray quality and stuff review. The blu-ray has the movie in widescreen or full screen format and it looks fantastic. This movie has always looked blurry but that is gone here. There is some grain due to the age of the film but the sound and picture are the best that it has ever been released. The Extras are two other cuts of the film in DVD format. The directors cut has extended scenes of violence, sex, and the order of the scenes is also switched, quality is standard definition. The bad ending Japanese version has alternate scenes and evil ending. Finally, some trailers and interviews are included. Final thoughts: I'm a fan of this film so I'm over the moon about this great release. Friends that have seen it do think the movie is good but low budget. The quality of the film is great and the different cuts will be a treat for fans. Highly recommended.

Nemesis is one of those movies that feels like it was made on a bet. Someone, somewhere, must have watched Blade Runner and Terminator before deciding that they could be remade into one movie for $97. Starring French martial artist Olivier Gruner, who sports a Schwarzeneggerian command of English and runs so weird you'd never suspect him of being an athlete, Nemesis is a nigh incomprehensible cyberpunk tale of the LAPD battling a secret underground organization of anarchist cyborgs. With a plot, set pieces, and even character names (One woman is named Max Impact) that would seem at home in a random 80s anime, Nemesis one of the most entertaining schlock action movies I've ever seen. Do you like martial arts scenes where only one actor knows what he's doing? Nemesis is for you. Do you like movies where regular guns have random nonsense stuck on them to make them sci-fi guns AND EVERYTHING THEY SHOOT EXPLODES? Nemesis is for you. Do you like special effects that vary wildly in quality from the absolutely laughable to shots that would arguably hold up today? Nemesis is for you. Do you like extended sequences of dialog where Thomas Jane stands around without pants for literally no reason? Nemesis is for you. Make no mistake - Nemesis is not a good movie by most rubrics, but it is always entertaining. It is so bold in its nonsense - never winking at the camera or hanging a lantern on anything- that you'll find yourself weirdly sucked in by it. This is Mondo Video release so the price is a bit steep (although it comes with multiple different cuts of the film), but if you like the bizarre flavor of 1990s video store movies, this is worth checking out. With a few buddies and a pizza, Nemesis is a great way to kill an evening.

Albert Pyun's movies usually aren't worth more than half a glance. Though he's directed some of the more creative of celluloid premises, his films tend to be underdone action C-titles featuring poor casting, even worse acting, bare-bones production values, and a consistently bland color scheme that makes the movies boring even to look at. Though he never really outdid his breakout attempt ( The Sword and the Sorcerer ) and lost just about all of his Tinseltown value after 1993, he just managed to squeeze out one more good hunkajunk before going off of the cinematic deep end when he made "Nemesis": a sci-fi shoot-'em-up combination of The Terminator and John Woo's Hard Boiled , and the launchpad of Olivier Gruner's career as an action hero. The story: in the year 2027 - when America and Japan have merged into a single entity and robotic implants are commonplace - Alex the cyborg cop (Olivier Gruner, Angel Town ) is strong-armed into accepting a final mission from his superior (Tim Thomerson, Iron Eagle ): stop his ex-partner (Marjorie Monaghan, Space Rangers ) from smuggling data to the Red Army Hammerhead terrorist organization. However, even with a security bomb attached to his heart, Alex begins to question his assignment when it becomes clear that the sides of good and evil and man and machine are not as clear as they seemed... At the time, Olivier Gruner was fresh out of his kickboxing career as France's first-ever national champion, so go into this movie expecting a dramatic performance akin to those of Jean-Claude Van Damme. I was a bit disappointed that there weren't a lot of martial arts to be seen, but the film more than makes up for the sheer amount of bullets it blows through the sets. While there isn't quite as much shooting as in the aforementioned John Woo film, "Nemesis" really was the only respectable challenger to that one at the time. I wouldn't be surprised if an entire fifth of the movie focused solely on Gruner and company waging a machinegun war on eachother. There's loads more interesting gunplay than was the timely norm, as well: prepare to see a lot of two-handed gunslinging, mid-air and on-the-slide firing (including a neat instance wherein Gruner bulls-eyes an enemy while performing a backflip), and general ingenuity to spell out a perfect guilty pleasure for action fans. Pyun's more competent in his directing here than usual, as well. Though it looks like most of the sets were there to begin with (i.e. they look cheap), he makes good use of them, presents a surprisingly wide scope of environments, and leaves his usual technical snafus at home. Alas, the movie's special effects are well behind-the-times, even when the film was released: keep in mind that Terminator 2 - Judgment Day had come out two years prior, and the questionable robotics and stop-motion climax will look fairly disappointing. The same can be said for the acting: since this is an action film and Olivier Gruner is an action hero, his performance can be excused, but with the exception of Thomerson, the rest of the cast is in need of help: campy Marjorie Monaghan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa ( Mortal Kombat ), Merle Kennedy ( May ), and Nicholas Guest ( Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor ) needed to be hit with the script a few more times before they attempted their scenes. As anything other than an action movie, "Nemesis" deserves a lower rating, but if you know what to expect when going in, you'll be setting yourself up for an enjoyable 95 minutes. If you're new to Pyun's work, either get out while you can or watch this film. Just know that, with very few exceptions, you won't be finding anything better than this in the man's portfolio.

Albert Pyun is critically known in Hollywood as the 'king of the B movie' having worked with Oliver Gruner before on other projects, this really is B movie heaven! I saw this film originally on Video years ago and fell for it, it's difficult to undderstand what's good about it, but it's probably down to the innate fact that it's flawed. Set in a future where cybernetics are everyday and everyone opts for 'mechanical improvement' Alex (Gruner's character) plays a cop, trying to stop a cyber/human war. It's very steriotyped and although an early 90's movie, looks very much in the 80's clothing and syntax style. However you view it, if sci-fi is your thing, it's a lot of fun and interesting to see what a good director can do with next to no budget, an unknown cast (with the exception of Tim Thomerson and Brion James (of Bladerunner fame)) and worth it for a fun night in. It may also inspire you to see some of Albert Pyun's other classics.

Nichts für Kinderaugen. Aber da kommen freudige Kindheitserinnerungen hoch. Geschichte und Action sind einfach nur vom feinsten. Ich stehe auf 90er Jahre Sci fi Action.

まだまともな内容の一作目。ビジュアル的には、結構雰囲気が出ていていい感じです。ただ、日本版でカットされたラストバトルは、すさまじくダサいので、カットは懸命な判断だったかもしれません。二作目以降はマッチョな女性が活躍するだけの内容になったそうで・・（昔二作目を見て、ひどくつまらなかったことだけ覚えています）、見直してみると、すでにこの作品にその嗜好がにじみ出ていますね。 内容はダラダラしていますし、別に名作でもなんでもないのですが、記憶に引っかかる作品ではあります。 主演女優さんの声がかわいいです。

Great Blu-ray transfer! Probably my favorite Pyun film.

Fallecido hace algunos meses, Albert Pyun es un director que siempre tuvo que bregar con productos de escaso presupuesto, destinados al videoclub. Nemesis nos llegó vía Récord Visión, uno de los sellos más activos de aquel periodo y está protagonizado por el francés Olivier Gruner, un Van Damme de 2a que dominó con bastante aplomo las estanterías de alquiler de cintas en VHS y luego DVD. Pyun inició con ella una especie de franquicia sobre cyborgs muy en plan Terminator, con algo de Blade runner para completar la jugada.