Product Description: Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007
Amazon.com: The sacrifice of a beloved character is just one of many highlights in Nemesis, the 10th feature in the lucrative Star Trek franchise. Enigmatically billed as the beginning of "A Generation's Final Journey," this richly plotted Next Generation adventure maintains the "even number rule" regarding Trek's feature quality, and it's one of the best in the series. It hits its brisk stride when Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his Enterprise-E crew encounter Shinzon (Tom Hardy), a younger clone of Picard, rejected by the Romulans as the human weapon of an abandoned conspiracy. Raised on the nocturnal Romulan sister planet Remus, Shinzon now plots revenge against Romulus and Earth but needs Picard's blood to carry out his scheme. A wedding, a childlike "duplicate" Data named B-4 (Brent Spiner), spectacular space battles, and uncommon acts of valor make this a tautly-paced action thriller, poised to pass the franchise (but not quite yet) to a new generation of Starfleet personnel. Die-hard Trekkers will not be disappointed. --Jeff Shannon
satisfied Disc was brand new. Good seller. Not the best star trek movie out of all of them, but still a good buy.
Not As Bad As Everybody Thinks This movie is not as bad as everyone has made it out to be. It took some time to grow on me. It's not what I would have liked for it to be as a Trek Fan but it was decent. It is unfortunate that it is probably the last film with the TNG crew. With the reboot about to take off it seems unlikely that we will see Picard and crew again. Again, not as bad as people have made it out to be.
1 of the Best! This is 1 of the best must see Star Trek Movies today. Well planned and well acted by the Cast and Crew.
A Sad Farewell Sadly, this last production in the 40 year long original "Star Trek" continuity turned out to be nothing more than a poor man's remake of "Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan", seen through the bland prism of the already bloodless Next Generation cast. An unfortunately low note on which to go out, and the only true financial flop in the film franchise. So far anyway.
MEDIOCRE!!! (Sorta) Remember how awful "Insurrection" was? Well, "Nemesis" is kind of relief from that! It's nowhere near as inane, talky and bland as THAT cinematic TNG installment was, but you STILL wonder where the rest of the movie is! There are no "hooks" in this movie....! Nothing GRABS you like it should, like the better TNG TV eps like "Best of Both Worlds" or "Contagion" did. (And wouldn't the movies have been a great medium to further delve into THAT unfinished story??)
Picard has a clone within the Romulan empire. Big hairy deal! There's a double of ANOTHER major character in the film, too! One of the things that always p****d me off about the TNG show was the lazy writer's device of making yet another "double character" episode! They almost ALWAYS stank after the first use of this device!
The film opens up on Rolmulus...(btw, the Romulan throne city exteriors look JUST like they did on TV...like obvious miniatures.) And we are witness to what amounts to the reverse of what happened to Julius Caesar, with Romulan senators killed off within the first five minutes. THEN the intrigue starts in earnest!
What might bother you in this movie is: Why is Earth never actually threatened? Or Vulcan? Or the Klingons? This all pretty much stays in the Romulan system, well away from the doorsteps of the classic Romulan enemies. Just think of the tension that being in the Terran, Klingon or Vulcan systems would have engendered vis a vis the Romulans against the full bore complement of Federation or Klingon fleets! And forgive me, but Tom Hardy's portrayal of Picard's clone just wasn't over-the-top villainous enough for my tastes! He was TOO muted and just doesn't seem like that much of a threat! Anybody who plays villains ought to be forced to watch a few movies starring Rutger Hauer or Richard Lynch as the bad guys, since these guys pretty much wrote the book on truly evil acting in movies of the last 30 years.
And yes, we lose good old Data in this one, but don't despair....! There's a ready-made replacement for him in B-4, who, I GUARANTEE you, has probably had a chip implanted in him already that will bring him up to Data's speed eventually in future stories, (probably as TV movies,) of the TNG crew.
While this is MUCH better than "Insurrection" as a movie, it STILL feels too much like a less than truly stellar TV episode, "Insurrection"'s biggest fault.
Least ways, it's STILL better than "Enterprise"! ;-)
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