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Star Trek - Nemesis (Full Screen Edition)

Star Trek - Nemesis (Full Screen Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fantastic Movie!
Review: This movie was pretty good. It had a great script and also a lot of unexpected surprises!! Star Trek TNG fans will be shocked!! This movie really show you how each of the characters grows and moves on but still manage to keep in touch with one another. This was not the best Star Trek movie but it was most certainly not a failure. There's also a lot of action and the usual flawless special effects. Can't wait to see the next movie! I hope the Q returns to challenge Picard!
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: VERY COOL DVD
Review: This must be one of the best star trek films yet. Has some great stuff on the DVD

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Horrible... Horrible...
Review: Excited from the awesome trailer, I took off to the local theater to watch "Nemesis." What a major disappointment! This was by far one of the worst Star Trek movies ever created. It played out like some cheap, made-for-TV movie. Campy scenes (such as a wedding scene), gobs of boring exposition, and a "nemesis" who does absolutely nothing but talk. The best part of this entire flick was the first 5 minutes where the senate is turned to stone. After that, it's camp-city! Baird could have spared us from the sex scene between commander Riker and counselor Troi. "Contact" w/the borg lady is the best so far...

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Nothing much to it.
Review: Want to have a few laughs,watching the antics of characters you know and love? Grab this movie. Want an intelligent sci-fi flick with interesting things to say about identity and cloning? For Gossakes go elsewhere. The triteness is unbelievably thick on the ground. The other good points would be the ambience and special effects,which are good,and the design for the new ship,which is amazing.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A fair film. Less than fair DVD
Review: The film is okay. Certainly not the best STNG film, but it works. Shame it's got to be THIS film as their last.

The main thing I was disappointed in was the commentary on the DVD. Ultimate bore. The director is the only one providing commentary. It's quite apparent that he forgets that he's supposed to be providing any commentary. I frequently wondered if he stepped out for coffee. The film volume is not returned during his long pauses, either. Which leaves you with nothing to listen to. Also, he didn't need to whisper. He's not in a crowded theater. The secret to a good commentary track is to have more than one person providing the commentary. They can work off eachother and it becomes far more interesting. They totally missed the boat on this one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Take it For What It is Worth...
Review: I have been a fan of Star Trek since early childhood, and I was sad in VI when we finally said goodbye to Kirk and Co. And I admit, it took me awhile (Season 3 of TNG: "Best of Both Worlds")to warm-up to the TNG gang. With this film, I would have to say that it is the finest film to feature TNG, and I am sad to see them go as well. I am not a fan of the other series, so this is an ending for me as well. Thank God for DVD's, so I can revisit friends whenever I want to. Nemesis truly looks like a film and not an extended TV show: dark, edgy, and although predictable, somewhat magical. The Enterprise E (my favorite part of the TNG films) looks as mighty as ever, and I am glad that they finally showed what she can do. The characters are alive and well, and I feel that this film was badly underrated. If you are a fan like me, just enjoy it and take it for what it is worth.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: an anemic end to a vital series?
Review: After watching this film I went back and watched First Contact and was amazed by how much more energy and snappy dialog it had. To me this film felt full of plot holes and was tired. Tired especially in its use of old formulae: a threat to Earth, an outgunned Enterprise (they sure did better against the Borg!), the insipid weepiness of Deanna Troi, an alien device for Picard to figure out and defuse before it goes off (has anyone kept track of how many times he has done this?), the inability of the crew--Data this time, in the wedding scene--to quit singing and dancing and get off Broadway altogether...

And some parts were just silly. The pronged metal thing that just happened to be on the Scimitar's bridge for Picard to use against his alter ego. Another android, seemingly out of nowhere, found by chance in time for an insidious agenda. Half the crew departing without even a heartfelt goodbye. And a dune buggy with a phaser rifle and big tires: this is the best the 24th Century can do in terms of new equipment? Did Starfleet HQ move to Baja?

The film did have its strong points. The bad guy could be whiny but was eloquent in places. The exploration of cloning and individuality was timely, if limited. Patrick Stewart is great in just about everything he appears in, even if he did scream too much in Moby Dick. Same with Brent Spiner.

I've been watching STNG since its inception, and if this is indeed the last film, then perhaps it needs to be, although a more dramatically crafted finale--like "All Good Things"--would have let the show depart the stage with a bang rather than a whimper. After watching the film twice I told myself that perhaps a lack of closure said something essential and good about the series itself. But in the end, I didn't believe it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A worthy addition to your Star Trek collection
Review: I liked it better than I thought I would, actually. I heard more negative comments than positive ones before I saw it, so I wasn't expecting much but I was pleasantly surprised to find it enjoyable after all. It's not Star Trek:TNG going out with a bang, but I still enjoyed the movie all the way through. It felt more like just another episode of Star Trek rather than a movie finale. It wasn't as powerful as Insurrection, which would have been a better choice for the final ST:TNG movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It Was Bad, But Trekkies Should Watch It Anyway
Review: I learned two things from this movie that I found somewhat disturbing:
1. There are still SUVs in the 24th century.
2. Picard was bald as a teenager.

I love ST:TNG. It's one of my favorite shows. The movies, though, have tended to be very hit-or-miss. Any movie that starts off with Patrick Stuart destroying fragile alien desert ecosystems in a 24th century SUV and ends with the Enterprise ramming itself into another ship is definitely a miss.

Our antagonist in this movie, Shinzon, is supposed to be a clone of Picard. This is proven by showing us, the audience, a picture of a much younger Picard in his Academy cadet uniform. They are physically identical. And they are both bald, which I don't understand at all, because this belies what we learned in the ST:TNG episode "Rascals", where a teenaged Picard has a full head of hair.

In any case, Shinzon looked more like Dr. Evil from "Austin Powers" dressed in creaky cowhides than a young Patrick Stuart. (If you listen carefully, Shinzon's leather outfit does in fact make squeaky noises whenever he moves!)

The plot was weak, the makeup for the Remans bizarre (aren't they, like the Romulans, supposed to be an offshoot of the Vulcans? Why would living in the dark do that to their skin??), and the killing off of one of the senior staff members incomprehensible.

The only highlight of this movie is finally watching Riker and Troi tie the knot. Even that was shaky, though, because you KNOW Lwaxana Troi would SO BE THERE at her daughter's wedding, even if she was going to have a Betazoid ceremony later. And apparently Wesley somehow got an invitation while dressing warmly on other planes of existence, because he was there.

Star Trek fans, by all means watch this movie. You'll probably be sorry you did, but would you really be a Trekkie if you passed it over?

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: a weak ending to a great franchise
Review: I've heard it said that Nemesis was the last of the Next Generation movies (but how many last star trek movies had shatner..). It's a weak ending. The problem is a writer who hasn't written much and a director who is unfamiliar with the franchise and has little experience directing (though a lot of good editing jobs). It's an interesting story that centers around Picard and Data. Riker gets a good action sequence. Troi has a decent role. As does Jordi. But Worf was just overlooked in this film. They touched on all the different series in one way or another. I know that the Star Trek franchise won't end, even if it isn't the Next Generation cast anymore. I just hope that they can make movies better than this one. It's ok, but really only if you are already a fan.


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