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www.filmcritic.com - : Don't blame yourself if Nemesis makes virtually no sense to you. It's not your fault. It really does make minimal sense. In the near future (Japan and the U.S. have ''merged''), Olivier Gruner plays a half-man half-machine cop who ends up leaving the LAPD and taking a kind of bounty hunter job for his old employers. Mass hysteria, explosions, and washed-out ''futuristic'' footage ensue. The acting is appalling, but the low-budget special effects do manage to impress from time to time. more...
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2.5/
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www.moria.co.nz - : Most of the success of the film can be laid at the door of screenwriter Rebecca Charles. Charles turns in a script that uses standard Cyberpunk tropes with an audacious assurance. (Although, as with most Pyun films, she does get the difference between a cyborg and an android mixed up - it is never made clear if the androids running about are humans that have been 100% cybernetically replaced, which would justify calling them cyborgs, or not). more...
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3.5/
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