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70Familiarity and continuity are what the success of this series has always been about. We've been here before, and we like the neighborhood.
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67A little bit obsessed with replication.
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67Has a delightfully nasty villain and pumped-up action, albeit along familiar lines.
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63This 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.
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63If anyone tries to tell you how this one ends, blast 'em with a phaser. Set on stun, of course.
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63While 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.
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63Unfortunately, the plot runs out of dilithium crystals, and drifts to a sluggish and predictable conclusion
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63Fails 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.
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63The venerable series is looking outmoded and outdated. Media saturation and age have taken their toll.
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63Once 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.
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63It combines elements of "Lord of the Rings," "Star Wars" and James Bond flicks with generically satisfying results.
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60The humor is not as hackneyed as in previous films.
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60Nemesis 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.
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60Once it reaches the meat of the story, it seems to lose its confidence.
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60An amiably klutzy affair whose warm, fuzzy heart emits intermittent bleats from the sleeve of its gleaming spacesuit.
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60Despite 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.
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60Reasonably entertaining if utterly familiar entry in the long-running SF franchise.
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50Star 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.
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50Fails to engage.
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50As 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.
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50Conventional wisdom has it that the best Star Trek movies are the even-numbered ones. Nemesis may keep that streak alive, but barely.
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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.
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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.
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40Nemesis, by comparison, is about as exciting as a Tribble on Vicodin.
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40Plays 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.
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38There comes a time when the future looks old, and that's where "Star Trek" finds itself on the time-space continuum.
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30Collapsed into the black hole of its own mythology.
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30An ordeal for all save the most ardent Treksters.
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30An offering so endearingly lame it seems to have missed the past 10 years' worth of special-effects breakthroughs.
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