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71
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66
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56
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55
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Star Trek: Nemesis
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and peril and a scene of sexual content.
Starring
Patrick Stewart,
Jonathan Frakes,
Brent Spiner,
LeVar Burton,
Michael Dorn,
Gates McFadden,
Marina Sirtis,
and
Tom Hardy
The Federation is about to encounter its greatest challenge -- The Romulans want peace. Conceived in the regal senate halls of Romulus and forged in the dilithium mines of Remus, comes a nemesis bent on destroying Picard and the Federation...exactly in that order. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
John Logan (also story)
Rick Berman (story)
Brent Spiner (story)
Gene Roddenberry (television series Star Trek)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Stuart Baird
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 20, 2003
Video: December 31, 1969
Theatrical: December 13, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
116 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Familiarity and continuity are what the success of this series has always been about. We've been here before, and we like the neighborhood.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Has a delightfully nasty villain and pumped-up action, albeit along familiar lines.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A little bit obsessed with replication.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The venerable series is looking outmoded and outdated. Media saturation and age have taken their toll.

63
Miami Herald
Howard Cohen
If anyone tries to tell you how this one ends, blast 'em with a phaser. Set on stun, of course.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Fails to match the philosophical and acting bounties of 1996's ''First Contact.'' Baird has seen to it that the Enterprise's being under fire still amounts to the crew rocking back and forth, gripping the railings as the ship's phasers are down to 4 percent.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
It combines elements of "Lord of the Rings," "Star Wars" and James Bond flicks with generically satisfying results.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
This is a better movie than the vacuous "Insurrection," thanks largely to a sympathetic screenwriter, longtime "Trek" fanatic John Logan ("Gladiator"), and a crew (headed by Patrick Stewart's Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and Brent Spiner's android Data) determined to go out in glory.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Unfortunately, the plot runs out of dilithium crystals, and drifts to a sluggish and predictable conclusion

63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
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.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Once again, perhaps the most impressive effect is Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, using his Shakespearean training to make long mouthfuls of nonsense sound almost persuasive.

60
Film Threat
Mike Robinson
The humor is not as hackneyed as in previous films.

60
Variety
Scott Foundas
Despite the intriguing set-up, there's something unambitious and scaled-back about Star Trek Nemesis, so that most of the time it feels like a slightly suped-up episode of the "Next Generation" TV series.

60
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Nemesis never feels true to itself, its energy never fully engaged. Even with Earth on the line in its climactic space battle, the film seems embarrassed that it couldn't have found a better way to work through its issues.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Once it reaches the meat of the story, it seems to lose its confidence.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Reasonably entertaining if utterly familiar entry in the long-running SF franchise.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
An amiably klutzy affair whose warm, fuzzy heart emits intermittent bleats from the sleeve of its gleaming spacesuit.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
As spent screen series go, Star Trek: Nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up -- and there's nothing to drink.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Fails to engage.

50
Village Voice
Alex Pappademas
As Shinzon, a sickly boy-emperor grown from Picard's DNA by scheming Romulans, Tom Hardy channels some of the verve of rich-Corinthian-leather-clad Khan villain Ricardo Montalban, although his real model seems to be Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator.

50
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Even though it doesn't feel like an appropriate send-off, the lethargy of Star Trek: Nemesis is probably indication enough that the series should end here.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Star Trek is over for me. I've been looking at these stories for half a halftime, and, let's face it, they're out of gas.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Conventional wisdom has it that the best Star Trek movies are the even-numbered ones. Nemesis may keep that streak alive, but barely.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Nemesis, by comparison, is about as exciting as a Tribble on Vicodin.

40
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Plays like a greatest-hits remix; like "Die Another Day," it's bent on resurrecting a moribund franchise by recalling all the things you used to love about it till you grew into big-boy pants.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
There comes a time when the future looks old, and that's where "Star Trek" finds itself on the time-space continuum.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
An ordeal for all save the most ardent Treksters.

30
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
Collapsed into the black hole of its own mythology.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
An offering so endearingly lame it seems to have missed the past 10 years' worth of special-effects breakthroughs.


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