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STAR TREK: NEMESIS
A spoilsport clone with
a giant chip on his shoulder is determined to radiate planet earth
clear out of this world.
CAST: Patrick Stewart, Tom Hardy, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner,
LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, Gates McFadden, Ron Perlman
DIRECTOR: Stuart Baird
 "The
movie is slower than molasses on the dark side of Uranus. Worse,
it's tacky. I know it's supposed to be tacky, for the essence of
classic ‘Star Trek’ is its tackiness, but somehow tacky
on the big screen isn't the same as tacky on the small. Tiny and
blurry on the tube, it's cute and adorable. Blown out to 36 feet
by 18 feet, and, worst of all, in actual focus, it just seems depressing."
--Stephen Hunter, The Washington Post
"As long as these liberal humanist missionaries, working in
clockwork harmony with their rainbow coalition of extraterrestrial
and android colleagues, keep on going where no man has gone before,
cornball 60's optimism will have a future…an amiably klutzy
affair whose warm, fuzzy heart emits intermittent bleats from the
sleeve of its gleaming spacesuit." --Stephen Holden, The New
York Times
"I've been looking at these stories for half a lifetime, and,
let's face it, they're out of gas …In movie after movie after
movie I have to sit through sequences during which the captain is
tersely informed that the front shield is down to 60 percent, or
the back shield is down to 10 percent, or the side shield is leaking
energy, and the captain tersely orders that power be shifted from
the back to the sides or all put in the front, or whatever, and
I'm thinking, life is too short to sit through 10 movies in which
the power is shifted around on these shields. The shields have been
losing power for decades now, and here it is the Second Generation
of Star Trek, and they still haven't fixed them. Maybe they should
get new batteries." --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"This 10th film in the series looks and feels tired, a valedictory
lap for the old crew before the next ‘Star Trek’ cast
moves up to take over the movie franchise…This one is as slow-moving
and conventional as 1998's ‘Star Trek Insurrection,’ the
ninth film…The people with their hands on the wheel of the
"Star Trek" franchise need to think serious about retooling
this venerable vehicle before sending it around the track for ‘Star
Trek’ movie No. 11." --Marshall Fine, The Journal News
"It's true that the ‘Star Trek’ movies, and ‘Nemesis’
is only partially an exception, have an air of pokey earnestness
about them. No one is going to say they have the narrative propulsion
of a runaway train, no matter who writes and directs them. And,
with Stewart and in this case Hardy very much the exceptions, no
one is going to say they are memorably acted. Familiarity and continuity
are what the success of this series has always been about. We've
been here before, and we like the neighborhood." --Kenneth
Turan, The Los Angeles Times
"As always, the Earthbound sequences are cheesy, the attempts
at comic relief are hokey and the technojargon is exhausting. And
there are some unintentionally funny scenes featuring Jonathan Frakes'
1st Officer Will Riker. But while ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’
isn't nearly as good as the best Nicholas Meyer-written movies like
‘The Undiscovered Country,’ it is far from the worst,
thanks to the topical issues it raises, the performances of Stewart
and Hardy, and that essential feature--a decent full-on space battle."
--Jonathan Foreman, The New York Post
"‘Star Trek: Nemesis,’ the 10th in the series of
movies based on the popular ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’
TV series, is convincing evidence that the venerable franchise needs
to be mothballed in space dock and not come out for another mission
without a major refitting…‘Nemesis’ never veers for
long from a numbingly familiar course." --Gregory M. Lamb,
The Christian Science Monitor
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