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Posted: 00:01:44 on December 13 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Star Trek: Nemesis

STAR TREK NEMESIS beams down into theatres today and TrekWeb is your destination for reviews all day and all weekend long. If there's any definitive statement so far, it's that opinion on this film ranges across the board. We'll endeavor to keep updating this story and others throughout the day with the latest reviews.

The New York Times has reviewed NEMESIS positively, saying the film continues the STAR TREK tradition of "60's optimism." Reviewer Stephen Holden begins his article by saying, "Let's have a small round of applause for good old reliable Star Trek," and continues to say the film while not perfect delivers what the series does best.

"Nemesis, the 10th "Star Trek" movie to appear since 1979 is an amiably klutzy affair whose warm, fuzzy heart emits intermittent bleats from the sleeve of its gleaming spacesuit. Although the action takes place outside our solar system, the movie is unapologetically and comfortingly Earth-centric. In the universe of Star Trek, Earth will always be the planet from which all progress emanates, especially healthy moral development."

While not entirely buying the casting of Tom Hardy as a younger Patrick Stewart, Holden says "in paralleling the similarities between Data and the severed head of his prototype (which Shinzon used as bait to bring the Enterprise into his sphere) with those between Picard and his clone, it buttresses the movie's philosophy that a sustained personal commitment to self-improvement can humanize androids and even turn bad seeds into good ones."

The NYT is also impressed with the film's climactic ending battle, which comes to several faux conclusions. Check out the full write-up here.

On the other coast, the Los Angeles Times also likes NEMESIS, with reviewer Kenneth Turan saying "Ever resilient and reliable, the Starship Enterprise team has never hesitated to move forward no matter what the obstacles, and the latest feature, 'Star Trek Nemesis,' has once again ventured into unexplored territory."

Turan likes Hardy's Shinzon, saying the villain "is most unnerving and whose back story gives this film the most insinuating villain since Alice Krige's Queen of the Borg stopped hearts across the galaxy."

Turan continues, echoing the NYT in his appreciation for what STAR TREK has always done best: "Hey, it's about the old-fashioned kind of thematic science fiction that isn't seen much anymore, redolent of late-night dorm-room chat sessions on issues like doubles and the nature of identity, when questions on the order of "can the echo defeat the voice" could seem, after too much caffeine abuse, like something almost profound. Questions that helped make the original Gene Roddenberry 'Star Trek' such a phenomenon."

Read the full review here.

TrekWeb's own Steve Krutzler has reviewed NEMESIS, awarding the film four out of five stars and writing, "The underwhelming feeling that usually accompanies a new STAR TREK film—admit it, even FIRST CONTACT—is finally gone. With STAR TREK NEMESIS, the NEXT GENERATION has finally arrived on the big screen, in a big way. It’s taken four films and eight years but we’re finally presented with an adventure containing the depth and epic quality of a feature film. NEMESIS does everything a STAR TREK movie should, but hasn’t done in a long time, mixing large-scale action/adventure with stimulating character drama in a package you just can’t get on the small screen." Read TrekWeb's full review here.

Cinescape's Michael Tunison also likes NEMESIS, rating it a B: "In many ways, NEMESIS is the movie that should have been made back when Picard took the baton from Kirk back in the mid-’90s – a true saga in which characters live, grow and move in new directions, not just work the same comfortable shticks in films that feel like expensively made two-hour TV episodes. In this sense, it would be a shame to end the Next Gen movie arc at this point, just when it really was starting to go where it had not gone before." Read that full review here.

More positivity comes from two reviews at CHUD. Reviewer Andrew Sweeney rates NEMESIS 8.3 out of 10 and says it's the best TNG pic: "It is perhaps the best rounded film the Next Generation has made. First Contact had the great conflict with the Borg that is still the best in any Next Generation film, but the stuff on Earth involving Zefram Cochrane was horrible and really dragged it down. Nemesis is a straight forward revenge picture, but with just enough magic that was present in the show and has been sorely missing since the aforementioned film." Read the full commentary here.

CHUD's other review comes from Steve Murphy, who rates NEMESIS 7.5 out of 10. Murphy liked the film almost as much as his colleague, saying, "This is the TNG response to The Wrath of Khan, no question. It is a much more action oriented film than any other TNG movie, but much more focused than ST:Insurrection. Tom Hardy has a good understated presence as Shinzon. Not as overtly threatening as Khan, but he does have a nice undercurrent of malice and an air of nobility. He also brings a degree of desperation that other Trek villains have lacked. It seems unfair to compare Shinzon to F. Murry Abraham's character in Insurrection, but for such a young actor to eclipse such a seasoned professional speaks a good amount, script or no." Read his full review here.

The Dallas Morning News also feels positive about NEMESIS, with reviewer Phillip Wuntch grading the film a B-: "But this is a Star Trek with a human touch, right down to a lump-in-the-throat conclusion. It functions in a comfortable cruise-control mode, allowing viewers to spend time with old friends. Extreme sentimentalists will insist that's what the holiday season is about." Wuntch also has praise for Hardy's villainous performance. Check out the full review here.

Rochester, NY's Democrat and Chronicle is also positive, although rating the film a 6/10, but saying it'll please fans: "But familiarity aside, Star Trek: Nemesis is fairly smart and involving and entangles the popular Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a crisis that makes him look to the past as well as the future. Fans will be touched, no doubt, because the mission is established as Picard's last go-around before his crew is dispersed to other assignments." Read that review here.

Trek5's Matt D. awards NEMESIS 3.5/5 stars and says it isn't perfect but it's a great ride: "It's the conviction of Logan, Patrick Stewart, Tom Hardy and the crew of the Enterprise to bring home an unforgettable "final" adventure that makes Nemesis well worth the wait. If it is indeed the final voyage of this crew, at least we got a good ride." Read that review here.

Michael Hinnman at SyFy Portal is positive on NEMESIS as well, giving it an A+: "I recommend watching the movie not once, but multiple times. But hey, don't tell anyone what I rated this ... I want to keep my reputation as a bad-ass reviewer." Read his full review here.

The Orlando Sentinel's Jay Boyar is much more mixed on the picture, awarding it three out of five stars and finding himself unable to say anything horribly negative about the picture. "Tom Hardy, as the fiendish Shinzon, manages to be sinister without appearing ridiculous. And this is quite a trick, especially when you factor in those shoulder pads...Trekkers will, of course, turn out to see it. That, after all, is their prime directive. The question is: Will anyone else?" Read Boyar's complete analysis here.

The Toronto Star's Peter Howell also perches the fench, giving the film 3/5 stars and saying Patrick Stewart redeems a movie that will divide the TREK faithful: "Nemesis will likely divide the faithful, winning as many detractors as supporters. It operates on impulse power rather than warp drive for most of its nearly two-hour running time, and features a villain who is among the least frightening ever to challenge the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise." Read more here.

Another mixed review from Bonnie Britton of the Indianapolis Star, who echoes the feeling that only TREK fans may get the most from NEMESIS: ""Star Trek Nemesis" is mildly entertaining, although it gives off claustrophobic vibes, confined as it is to a couple of ships. The main action scene not involving destruction of a spaceship occurs when Picard drives an Argo, a 24th-century off-road vehicle, over a bumpy stretch of sand and into a waiting escape vehicle. The special effects are smoother than some earlier Trek movie efforts, which looked clunky and pasted on." Read her full review here.

The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle also lands in the middle, saying hard-core fans may love it but there isn't much for anyone else: "Most movies about the distant past and distant future are really about the eras in which they were made, and "Star Trek: Nemesis," with its clone fascination and its story of a rogue terrorist with a powerful weapon, is no exception. That the movie reflects turn-of-the-millennium anxieties may be of interest to some scholar of the future. In the meantime, audiences can hang on to Stewart, as well as a spectacular crash between two starships, and wish there were just a little more to see." Get that article here.

The folks at the St. Paul Pioneer Press aren't as kind, reviewer Chris Hewitt viciously writing, "In all other respects, "Nemesis" meekly goes where every other "Star Trek" movie has gone before. I mean, honestly, after 15 years of making "Next Generation" shows, wouldn't you think they'd come up with a way to apply Data's makeup so that it doesn't get cakey and make him look like he has small-curd cottage cheese in his eyebrows?" Read that review here.

Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times hates NEMESIS. Giving the film two out of four stars, he finds fault with most of the fundamentals, like the lack of credibility for starships to function on electricity in the future: "Sparks fly out from the ceiling and the crew gets bounced around in their seats like passengers on the No. 36 bus. This far in the future they wouldn't have sparks because they wouldn't have electricity, because in a world where you can beam matter--beam it, mind you--from here to there, power obviously no longer lives in the wall and travels through wires... I think it is time for "Star Trek" to make a mighty leap forward another 1,000 years into the future, to a time when starships do not look like rides in a 1970s amusement arcade, when aliens do not look like humans with funny foreheads, and when wonder, astonishment and literacy are permitted back into the series. Star Trek was kind of terrific once, but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy." Read Ebert's full review here.

TV Guide isn't an ounce kinder, declaring "It's dead, Jim. The tenth Star Trek film, along with the execrable Enterprise, the fifth TV series, sadly gives power to the premise that this beloved science-fiction franchise — once a showcase for heartfelt allegorical drama that captured the spirit of its times — has collapsed into the black hole of its own mythology." Reviewer Frank Lovelace awards NEMESIS only 1.5/4 stars in his full review.

The Houston Chronicle's Bruce Westbrook gives NEMESIS a C and says the film's villain doesn't work: "Picard's "nemesis," Shinzon (Tom Hardy) seems no more threatening than The Simpson's Mr. Burns. Young yet bald, pasty-faced and increasingly feeble, he's got murky motivations to defy Picard, destroy Earth and stop a proposed alliance between the Federation and the Romulans... With just one series, Enterprise, in TV production and no new crew on the big-screen horizon, Paramount's 36-year-old franchise needs a jolt of self-perpetuating energy -- and Nemesis isn't it. Perhaps it's time to rev up the old warp drive and boldly go in a new direction." Read that full review here.

Reviewer Jeff Strickler writing for the Minneapolis Star Tribune also adopts an anti-NEMESIS approach, giving 2.5/4 stars and saying "Then again, that all just could be a part of salary negotiations for the next film. Nonetheless, bringing in a little fresh blood -- or, at least, some fresh ideas -- wouldn't be a bad idea. Despite a promise to "go where no one has gone before," the "Star Trek" franchise is stuck in a rut." Read his full review here.

The Denver Post agrees, its Mark Harden rating NEMESIS 2.5/4 stars and writing, "after all, at this late date it seems unlikely that any "Star Trek" film would appeal to those who aren't committed fans (which may explain why box-office figures for the series have slipped in recent years). "Nemesis" wouldn't be the place to start, anyway, with its references to events and relationships familiar only to Trekophiles." Reach that review here.

Gregory M. Lamb at the Christian Science Monitor isn't much friendlier, titling his review "Star Trek franchise lost in space" and containing delightful quotes like saying the movie, "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." Reach that review here.

Chicago's Daily Herald agrees, awarding only 2/4 stars and writing, "Not only does Shinzon talk slower, Nemesis moves like Vulcan molasses. The camera lingers on the cast members. Scenes stretch on longer than a year on Saturn. This comes as a surprise inasmuch as former movie editor Stuart Baird directed Nemesis." Reach that review here.

Negativity continues at Netflix, where reviewer James Rocchi gives NEMESIS just 1/5 stars and sums up his opinion in the article's title, "The posters suggest that this is 'A Generation's Final Journey.' That may be the best thing about Star Trek: Nemesis." Read that review here.

USA Today isn't any kinder, with reviewer Mike Clark writing, "First Officer Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) open the movie with their marriage ceremony, and Data even sings Irving Berlin's Blue Skies at the reception. The two must be pretty blue themselves, because they barely get any sack time, despite one of the few wedding-night scenes you'll see in a Star Trek pic. At 117 minutes, the movie is no quickie itself. Even if it has one good weekend, the Hobbits are going to kick its behind in less than a week." Read that review here.

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