Editor Reviews: Product Description:
Paramount Star Trek: Nemesis - DVD
The cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" returns on a diplomatic mission to initiate peace with the Romulans. But uponarrival to the alien planet, the crew is faced with a threat that could lead to the Earth's destruction, and Picard meets his most dangerous adversary yet, a surprisingly personal nemesis.
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton,
Majel Barrett, Marina Sirtis,Michael Dorn, Steven Culp, Gates McFadden, Tom Hardy, Ron Perlman, Tom Brady, Whoopi Goldberg, KateMulgrew, Dina Meyer
DVD Features:
Region 1; Keep Case; Widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
AudioCommentary - 1. Stuart Baird - Director
Featurettes (4)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Features: Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries: Photo Gallery
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
Related Products:
Star Trek - Nemesis (Widescreen Edition)
Customer Reviews:Average Rating:  Rating :  - 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 things that always p****d me off about the TNG show was the lazy writer's devise of making yet another "double character" epsiode! They almost ALWAYS stank after the first use of the devise!
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. 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 that would have aengendered 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! Anybody who plays villains ought to be forced to watch a few movies starring Rutger Hauer or Richard Lynch as the bad guy, 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 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"! ;-) See Full Customer Review |
