Nice effects though.

best movie i've ever seen.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

I mean really.... burn the reels. I never write reviews for movies. Even if I love them. But this one..... This one was such a total... complete waste of my and your time that I decided to register on IMDb and give this lemon some colour.I was a little hesitant to watch this movie. The out line seemed good and the actors were recognized, but I still felt like passing this puppy up to rot. I should have let it at that. But no.... I had to watch it. That'll teach me to go against my gut.BTW; Sparks don't fly from guns. Even futuristic ones.

Olivier Gruner stars as Alex, a cop in the year 2027 who has had many body parts replaced with robotics after assorted scrapes. After retiring from the force, he's assigned by his old boss, Farnsworth (Tim Thomerson) to apprehend a former partner, Jared (Marjorie Monaghan) who's smuggling data to a terrorist group. However, he will learn that things aren't as they seem; he'll come to not only question his identity but wonder where his loyalties lie. Compared to the other B movies of director Albert Pyun, this does deliver the goods when it comes to the action aspect. It gets down to business in record time, and soon enough there's plenty of gunfire and plenty of explosions. The special effects are for the most part pretty good. Only towards the end do they get rather laughable. Both the production design and the location shooting are excellent. Pyun and company really do create the sense of a world that's gone to hell. There's a strong accent on sex appeal, with many hot women in the cast (Deborah Shelton is particularly ravishing as Julian) and female *and* male nudity. This has also got one hell of a fun B movie cast, with a couple of familiar faces, some of them Pyun regulars. Some of the acting (and dialogue) are highly stylized, so enjoyment of both is likely to be a matter of taste. Gruner is likable in the lead, and contributing a standout performance is Merle Kennedy as guide Max Impact. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays "terrorist" leader Angie- Liv, Yuji Okumoto is a hotel proprietor, Nicholas Guest and a hilariously accented Brion James are Thomersons' colleagues, and Vincent Klyn and Thom Mathews play other baddies. Look for a young Thomas Jane (he's the provider of the male nudity) in a small part and Jackie Earle Haley in a cameo near the end as a technician. The main problem is the screenplay, by Rebecca Charles, which is rather muddled and Pyun has to work overtime to keep the audience interested in the characters and scenario. Thankfully, the movie does get better as it goes along and it culminates in one hell of a very funny and lively finish. The undemanding fan of low budget genre efforts such as this should find "Nemesis" agreeable if not remarkable or memorable. Six out of 10.

In the future, cybernetic beings are replacing humans with perfectly duplicated cyborgs which mimic human behavior and look the part. Oliver Grunner is an LA cop, Alex Raine, who is a human with cybernetic parts, who hunts terrorists for his department, under Commissioner Farnsworth (Tim Thomerson). What Alex doesn't realize is that Farnsworth has been "replaced" with a state-of-the-art cybernetic recreation who is to lead a revolution with a plan to wipe out humankind. There are characters like Angie-liv (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), Max Impact (Merle Kennedy, who moves like a monkey), Jared (Marjorie Monaghan, a "good cyborg" and once Alex's lover before he discovered she was in fact an "it"), and Julian (Deborah Shelton, Jared's cybernetic ally whose naked body actually looks synthetic) who are trying to stop the evil cyborg's from the planned human holocaust.The plot, with a lot of technical mumbo jumbo as dialogue to explain facets of the story play second fiddle to the non-stop action and you can most definitely see the John Woo influence in the grand ways director Albert Pyun and cinematographer George Mooradian stage action sequences. Gruner, in exceptional shape, even moves like Chow Yun Fat , at times, with how he shoots his various guns, particularly hand weapons. Lots of buildings take abuse, sparks emitting when metal is blasted into, the ground exploding from missiles and bullets, trees in Java toppling, old factories no longer in use taking an ass whooping thanks to the stunt coordinators and action choreographers allowed to work their cinematic magic.Coolest scene could be where Gruner must escape from certain death by blowing out several floors under him in order to escape. Plenty of "cyborg effects" which should appeal to fans of "cyberpunk".

I remember when I first saw "Nemesis" way back in the day, '93 or so, on cinemax or that TMC cable channel. I don't really recall exactly, but I recall being completely intrigued by the whole cyborg/futuristic screenplay. I was a fan of Olivier Grunner from an earlier low budget film that he made called "Angel Town," so I knew he wouldn't disappoint. Spoiler Alert: I loved the intro to the movie. How Alex Rain (Grunner) was about to get busy with some chick in what looked like a hotel room, but was later realized to be set right in like an industrial factory or something. Very weird to say the least. But then as they passionately kiss, she chokes the hell out of him! It turns out that she's some kind of "information terrorist/carrier" and she needs to make sure that Alex is not an undercover agent/cop. She seems to have confirmed that he's okay when suddenly he grabs her own pistol and shoots her right in the head. Which reveals a very odd looking cybernetic skull. And right after he kills her, the chase is on. As Alex leaves the room members of the "red army hammerhead" terrorist group pass through the hall. All 4 of them staring at Alex suspiciously. Needless to say they find the destroyed cyborg and go right after Alex. What ensues is one of the sickest action scenes I've ever seen. Complete with sexy females with machine guns and grenade launchers looking to murder our hero. You just have to see it to realize the strength and athleticism that Grunner has and how well he pulls off being a "cyborg" cop. I really think (for it's time) Nemesis was an awesome sci-fi action flick with lots of cool scenery, special effects and some seriously funny one liners and dialogue. The acting and accents were so bad and stiff that it was likable, or even funny. I love the interaction between that pony tail guy, Farnsworth and the other pony tail guy when they're trying to "convince" Rain to take on their "last assignment" by letting him know that they implanted a remote control bomb near his heart. Just too funny. See this movie!