Year: 1993

Directed by: Albert Pyun

Written by: Rebecca Charles

IMDB Reference

Degree of Cyberpunk Visuals: Medium

Correlation to Cyberpunk Themes: Medium

Key Cast Members:

• Alex: Olivier Gruner
• Farnsworth: Tim Thomerson
• Angie-Liv: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Overview: Surprise surprise - another movie with Gruner playing a cyborg - this time by Martial Arts cyborg master, Albert Pyun. Like Gruner’s performance in Automatic (1994), Nemesis is also a decent “B” cyberpunk flick. In Nemesis, Gruner does his Robocop impersonation while trying to fight bad guys in the year 2027. In a well done style over substance movie, we get a nice underground war between cyborgs and humans. Throw in a good bit of Escape from New York and Blade Runner knock-off visuals and you have yourself an evening of trashy fun! Again, nothing new here, but the action is actually done well enough that you might want to give it a watch if you’re hankerin for mindless but fun Robocop knockoffs.

The forums are up now and are linked in the Navigation bar. Access and post to the Virtual Meatspace to your hearts content! This is a great place to ask about movies I haven’t yet put reviews up. I have at least 40+ more to go, and have generally left the popular ones like the Matrix movies and so forth out so far. Chances are you all have seen those and have already made up your minds, so I’ve been concentrating mostly on more obscure ones (not all are obscure, obviously).

Also, again, I am looking for other reviewers, especially for other types of cyberpunk media. I would LOVE it if one of you cyberpunk book experts would agree to do something similar for the book world, or the Manga/graphic novel folks, or the art types, etc.

In other news, I’ve moved the site development posts to the right side under Other Blog entries.