Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

Waste of time

That was an excellent one.

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Best movie ever!

All Star Trek movies are the same and very boring. Some characters are even very annoying. The subject is always the same, only the names of the planets, the solar or galactic systems and the new characters differ. In fact, every time you see the same movie, the same special effects which are not great ("2001: A Space Odyssey" made by Kubrick in 1968 is much more avant-garde and spectacular...), the actors, except for Patrick Stewart who is acceptable, they do not excel with anything, all of it is of a mediocre level. Ron Perlman (behind a mask again) and Tom Hardy are OK. Without costumes and without makeup, Star Trek movies would be of no value at all. I understand why Nicholas Meyer refused to direct this one after he was denied to rewrite the script. Even the music of Jerry Goldsmith is upsetting, annoying.

I wasn't at all impressed with the last Star Trek movie called Star Trek:Insurrection, so my expectations weren't all that high for Star Trek:Nemesis. Well they should've been, because Star Trek:Nemesis is the best Star Trek film since Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan - and it may be better than that one. This film has got everything, A strong plot, good character development,brilliant acting,edge of your seat action sequences, great special effects, and a wonderful musical score.....I was blown away by how good Star Trek:Nemesis was. I found myself immediately wanting to see it again. I cant wait to add this film to my DVD collection. This is the film that George Lucus wishes that Star Wars Episodes I & II could've been. I cant say enough good about Star Trek:Nemesis

WARNING: CONTAINS A FEW spoilers Let me start by saying I am a primo Trek fan. I've seen every episode of every series, I actually cried when the last Generation and DS9 episodes aired. Everyone who knows Trek knows that in the Original movies the odd numbered ones sucked, with V being the worst, followed by I, and then III (which I thought was OK, just hokey). In the Next Gen movies, First Contact was definitely the best, and you could place the other two in whatever order you want. I hadn't seen this movie in the theater because it wasn't a time when I was with other Trek fans, and there were so many other big movies out at the same time. Eventually so much time had passed, and I had heard it was not great. Boy was it ever!I blame the very poor script, (by John Logan and Brent Spiner) and a director (Stuart Baird) who had NEVER SEEN any of the Next Gen before, how ridiculous is that?! There are so many holes it's just not even funny. Here are just a few:* they get a "signal" of positron emissions from a planet, which means it's another Data. Now I can't remember from the show, but I don't think that had ever been able to detect it from a planet to a ship. They never explain any of this, finding pieces of an old Data prototype on some planet, other than it was to lure the Enterprise close to Shinzon. How did he get the prototype? Why was it in pieces? Why did they use a dune buggy that was really like 350 year old technology? Why did they not care about the Advanced Directive about not interfering with a pre- warp civilization, who then randomly shoots at them, like Mad Max?!*Of course it's no big deal to just download Data's brain into his suddenly-not-in pieces prototype, who magically is working instantly.*The Romulan Senate has like no security (even though they are suspicious people) and one leaves behind a "bomb" device that goes unnoticed until it's too late. The downfall of the Klingon Empire in VII was miles ahead.*They leave the shields down when dealing with Picard's clone who obviously is up to no good, so he can be kidnapped.*They don't explain how Data swaps for B-4 on the Scimitar, or how the enemy didn't know, or differentiate between the two, or anticipate the swap.*The Remans, who are light- sensitive, beam aboard, yet they don't brighten the lights.*The fight sequences are actually very slow... Why didn't the far more powerful Scimitar just keep firing? The pacing was terrible.*The Enterprise rams the Scimitar at a painfully slow pace, and yet they can't react, even though it has shields, it just kind of half- buckles into it. Both ships still maintain their integrity, and the Scimitar's weapon isn't disabled, and of course takes minutes to charge up. *Because the transporters are down Data launches himself into space, and yeah that works. Please.*Picard doesn't act like typical Picard and doesn't shoot his clone, but then they can get into a convenient knife battle, and then of course hesitates and doesn't want to finish him off.*Data then just blows the weapon up with a simple phaser blast with two seconds to spare (Data doesn't act like Data and hesitates too), and the whole ship is instantly pulverized by a phaser into a weapon that before was shown drying out flesh, but yeah okay who needs consistency?So they kill Data off but somehow this is okay because his memory is in the prototype, no big deal. Overall, the directing and the writing were terrible. I think this movie is now the second worst in the franchise after the original #5.I wonder what Gene Roddenberry would think, he'd probably hate it on almost every level.So there you have it, from a true Trekkie (yes I've gone to conventions and I've won trivia contests).

This is the movie that killed "Star Trek" in it's cinematic form for seven years. Unlike the crew of the original series, who gently sailed off to the second star on the right, straight on till morning, the next generation was awkwardly bludgeoned to death by this dull, redundant, ineffectual action film.I'd like to keep my review short, and a good way to do that is to focus on what's good in this movie. There's a pre-stardom Tom Hardy playing Patrick Stewart's younger, eviler clone. Not that he's good in this (he's not), but it gives you a chance to see him before he became a real actor, so the movie holds interest for that reason.And for all its failings the movie is full of good ideas that weren't explored properly. It's not a mess, just a slog. 1.5 (out of 4)