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Summary: A Huge Letdown
Review: I really wanted to like this film. I really did. That's why it hurts so much to have to write this. But I must warn others. Do not see this film. I remember the excitement I felt when I discovered this film was going to be released. Alas.There are possible spoilers below, so beware. The film starts pleasantly enough, with Riker's wedding to Troi after showing trouble in the midst of the Romulan government. Wesley Crusher is finally given his due screen appearance. He is as gorgeous as always. I know that they cut out an entire 45 minute segment featuring him, which I was unhappy to hear. Next, the Trek crew finds scans indicating posotronic activity on a planet, so they go to investigate, finding parts to an android almost identical to Data. They land on a desert planet and Picard acts completely unlike his character. The reserved French captain is now a high testosterone mini-dimensional fun lovin' bad cop kind of guy roving through the desert in a Jeep/Hummer-esque vehichle. I can't quite grasp how Data could locate this new android if only the brain is posotronic, which has been hammered into our heads since the series began. But forget all the rules made so far. To quote the Fantasticks, this movie "defies logic and achieves ignorance!" In the desert the crew meets nasty creatures that look like copies of Max Shreck's 1922 Nosferatu. Of course the vehichles are equipped with laser cannons and such and much F/X money was spent making loud booms. After this lame adventure, the new android is put together. It is Data's mentally disabled brother. Blah blah blah. We already did this. It would have been much more interesting to do exploration with the Lor character. Hmm.. imagine doing battle with Lor. At least THAT would be a match for the Trek crew. Anyway, the new android is called B4. How tacky. A very uninteresting subplot altogether. The "story" continues, if you can call it that. We learn the Romulan senate has a new praetor, Shinzon. Jean Luc gets an awesome cameo from Janeway. Next, the Enterprise-E visits Romulus, and of course war breaks out, blah blah blah. **end of obvious spoilers you already figured out from the preview** The villain, Shinzon is underdeveloped. The story is too. It felt like echoes of Wrath of Khan were bubbling here. This is the first Star Trek I've seen that was simply a lame battle scenario. Half of the movie was spent at war. It felt felt the Matrix Revolutions to me. Pointless one dimensional buildup and buildup, huge battles, but absolutely no pleasure or satifaction in any of it. Star Trek has been great because each episode/movie dealt with a moral dilemma choice, well built characters and intriguing situations. This movie has none of that. It's just a big battle. If you like explosions and loud sound effects, this movie is for you. If not, beware. Characters are altered for no reason whatsoever. There is no real emotional buildup, just constant fighting, so the climax is boring and uninteresting. It feels like this is the end of Trek, which truly saddens me. It feels like Star Trek is trying to reinvent itself. It was fine before, people! That's why there is still a fan base! Even the music felt similar to the hokey music from the first season of TNG - even with those crappy 80s synth sounds. I cannot say enough: avoid this movie. 1/5
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: Well, i know that now some people are really gonna hate me, but i have to say that from what ive seen of the reviews on this site, more than half of the people writing them are being extremely foolish and are writing stupid, senseless things. For the umpteenth time, i read the reviews on Nemesis and can only say WHATS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? How can you think this is bad? For many, many truly awesome fantasy and sci-fi items, more than half the reviews are useless ranting that does no one any good, and basically all it says is: "I dont like it and since its me it must be right." So, anyway, i think that if all you're going to do is rant and give everyone a load of junk that couldnt be farther from the truth, stop writing reviews. I want to make it clear, im not saying everyone who criticizes these items is just ranting, i have seen some legitimate examples of people explaining why they dont like books, or movies, or whatever. The point is, those of you who write one line and say its trash, might as well just not write a review. Now, to talk about the movie, i must say that i think it had an interesting plot. It seemed like a cool idea to me (although i havent seen Wrath of Kahn, so i cant tell you if its similar to that), and i really think it is a decent movie. Its true, it wasnt the same as the series was, there is a different atmosphere, which could be improved, but overall i think it is a good movie, and is worth seeing.
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Summary: Watch...the future of Trek movies end.
Review: I can only hope 'Star Trek' can't get any worse than this. A recycled and dumbed-down plot stolen from Star Trek II fails to awe me as the TNG casts supposed final mission. This movie blatantly defies the even-odd rule of Trek movies, therefore requiring the rule to be modified. I suggest the following: "While even-numbered Star Trek movies are inevitably better than odd-numbered ones, every fifth movie is terrible, regardless of numbering." Anyway, this movie has very few redeeming qualities. The special effects are very good, though they obviously can't be the driving force behind a movie (this must've been what Berman was going for). I've read that Paramount dropped ILM for this movie; and if so, another thing it has in common with Star Trek V. Though in that case, the result was awful effects detracting even more from an awful movie. In 'Nemesis', the effects were the only thing that kept me awake. The actors seem bored, and I honestly can't blame them. You'll be bored to, if you have the courage to sit through the disgrace in the first place. If they'd wanted to kill off Data, they should've done it in 'First Contact', where his death would've had more meaning (saving humanity from the Borg as opposed to a perverted, dying megalomaniac with the brains of a peanut). Overall, this movie is a terrible entry into the 'Star Trek' series, and I hope never to see it again. If Paramount decides to do another one (which I very much doubt, given how much this one bombed), they should attempt to recapture the spirit of the previous Trek movies. Nemesis seems as if it was made in a desperate attempt to appeal to an almost non-existant mainstream audience. Unfortunately, due to the stigma attached to the 'Star Trek' franchise, this audience simply doesn't exist. If Nemesis had been made as a generic sci-fi/action movie, it may have done better. But attaching the ST name to a movie ensures you attract very few people other than fans of the series.
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Summary: Watch in Horror as the TNG Cast destroys a beloved Franchise
Review: What more can be said about the TNG cast that hasn't already been said? (Good or Bad.) All I can say is as a casual fan of ST I only know what I see and the bottom line is The TNG cast has destroyed this awesome franchise. No question about it. Since the premier of the first TNG Episode to the end of this movie they have managed to only, poorly, imitate the original cast. I respect Gene Roddenberrys vision and I know that he would frown on this movie. No doubt. The TNG movies have done nothing but rip off the original cast movies by repackaging and recycling old ideas and presenting them as new. THIS MOVIE is a perfect example. This movie is just a remake of ST II The Wrath of Khan...bottom line. Don't waste your money. Spend your money on the original. Borrow this movie from a friend or something but don't buy into this recycled, unoriginal, broken down, TNG series. TNG has never been original. They used some of the old cast for Generations because they had no clue how to be original. They stole the Time travel idea from ST IV for First Contact and now they have remade ST II. Don't buy into it. You will only encourage the suits in Hollywood to make more unoriginal junk like this. However, judging by the box office receipts on this movie, alot of people stayed away, so that is encouraging! And I have to thank the TNG Cast for failing so miserably with their movies because this means they have ruined it for the Voyager cast. So hopefully we won't have to sit through any Voyager movies thanks to the destruction laid out by TNG! Who knows what Original cast plot lines Voyager would have stolen? I do like Brent Spiner and Patric Stewart...when they are not making ST movies or tv episodes.
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Summary: These movies certainly get darker as they go along!
Review: The main disappointment for any fan of ST:TNG is that the movies seemed to progressively get away from what made the show so terrific: a real team feeling (unlike the classis Trek with its triumverate and then the supporting crew), a sense of balance between action and wit, and the much-improved Enterprise-D. The movies became dark affairs, including the ship(s), bathed in shadows and appearing cavernous and unsavory. Data and Picard took one stage and the rest of the crew did whatever they could. The films of the new crew are good .. they just don't have what fans loved about the show. NEMESIS is really dark and unsavory, but there is some balance, and the feel of the movie is almost operatic in consequence. It's good (Tom Hardy as Shinzon is amazing)and it contains stuff you've never seen. But it has that dark feeling that the show, even at its most daring, never had. Really .. would you want to serve aboard that Enterprise? It's like the Munster's house? But give NEMESIS credit for making a movie that tries to be unique and thoughtful and exciting. It achieves, but at the cost of sacrificing what was loved about TNG crew and its voyages.
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Summary: Star Trek: Nemesis
Review: This is a great film! BUY THIS DVD NOW!
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Summary: This film goes against everything that made STTNG a success.
Review: How to ruin Star Trek The Next Generation.
Firstly,ditch ILM despite all the good work that they did with the special effects of six other Star Trek film.
Secondly,make a mean spirited film where the cast are absolutely helpless against the opposition-Troi is helpless,Data is helpless,Picard loses a fight with a dying man,even the Enterprise is helpless. What was the point?
Thirdly,have a villian that is pathetic rather than villianous- Shinzon is a frustated virgin that perves on Troi and wants to rape her. THIS is Rick Berman's idea of a great villian?
Fourthly,make a Romulan film that isn't really about the Romulans. How dumb was that?
Fifth,have a pointless battle where the Enterprise's weapons have all the impact of raindrops on a window pane- splat,splat,splat,thereby making the "battle" pointless.
Sixth-have a clone of Picard that looks nothing like him,laughable stuff really.
Seventh-have the Enterprise run out of ammo after just one battle.This ship is supposed to have 250 photon torpedeos.
Eighth-Kill off Data without giving him a decent goodbye scene(as ST2 did with Spock).
Let me point out how dumb this movie's plot is-if it really is that easy to beam aboard an enemy ship,then why not just leave a bomb there?
When Rick Berman decided to remake ST2,he should have realised that ST2 refilmed it's ending to make it warmer and offer some hope. ST:Nemesis does not refilm and so has a cold and flat ending,a finale with no hope or charm. Data blown to bits,the end(a huge mistake).
Star Trek fans are still there,we just want a decent story with ILM doing the effects again.
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Summary: A Mediocre Entry into the Star Trek Film Series
Review: Though I feel a bit out of place reviewing a "Next Generation" Star Trek Film--I was never a huge fan of the second Star Trek TV series or any that came after it--there's enough wrong with this particular entry to deserve comment. Even on the small screen, ho-hum Jean-Luc Picard and crew were tedious substitutes for the original series' wonderfully adventurous and colorful characters, and it's that lack of charisma that is the main problem with "Star Trek: Nemesis." Without caring much about the characters, there's no emotional punch to the film's often poorly conceived and executed scenes, even if some seem lifted from the much less expensive but much more watchable predecessor, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." In this one, several rather awkward plot contrivances pit a heretofore unknown clone of Picard named Shinzon against the Federation, though the reasons for the clone's psychotic hatred against humanity are murky, at best. (From what we see onscreen, it makes more sense for him to hate his Romulan keepers.) While the film's opening ten minutes are gripping--featuring the brutal assassination of the Romulan government--things go downhill from there, including a tired wedding sequence that has little to do with the rest of the film, several space battles created with topnotch special effects but that are as exciting as watching bathtub toys bobbing along, and the inevitable, surprisingly bland face-to-face confrontation between Shinzon and Picard. The film's pace and story are so unengaging that I even had time to consider how silly it was to use vehicles with wheels in an age of spaceships zipping around (through a ship's corridors, no less) and people beaming themselves from place to place; "Star Trek: Nemesis" gave me plenty of time to disengage from what was happening on the screen. So far, only one "Next Generation" movie has held my interest--the surprisingly fun "Star Trek: First Contact"--but that's probably because it came closest in spirit to the 1960s TV series (though it contradicts what we learned there). Even Jerry Goldsmith's score can't seem to pump any excitement into what should have been Captain Picard's finest hour.
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Summary: Fitting final chapter
Review: Star Trek Nemesis does a good job of wrapping up the film saga of, if not the Star Trek franchise, but at least the Next Generation characters. The movie adds some of the action that some of the films have been missing (the space battle between the Reman warship and the Enterprise-E was very impressive). In fact, just having the Romulans and Remans being the big baddies for this movie is a great change, as none of the previous Trek films have used the Romulans as the main villains. Even with STVI, while the Romulans were part of the evil plot, they weren't running the show. Nemesis makes for a nice change. I greatly enjoyed Star Trek: Nemesis, and reccomend it heartily to Star Trek fans young and old alike.
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Summary: ....Although the franchise needs the Genesis device.
Review: I am NOT a Trekkie. Being merely a fan of TNG, I found this entry in the series dissapointing especially if this be the last TNG film. STAR TREK-NEMESIS has the plotting of an average episode. Aside from one great effect (DATA's jump through space), the story was not engaging enough to be the journey's end. It would've been nice to see something as clever and creative as the ALL GOOD THINGS episode to cap off the best entry in the STAR TREK universe (yes, the best-better than the original series). Go back and watch INSURECTION again, it's really a great flick and would have been a great segway into the final chapter of TNG if only that final chapter was as compeling as the better moments in a great series of shows and movies. Too bad, would've been nice to see a couple more adventures from PICARD's crew, guess we're all stuck with the average STAR TREK-NEMESIS.
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