This review will be on the director's cut of the film (known as "Nemesis v2.0"), which can be purchased from Albert Pyun. I will also be comparing the theatrical version with the director's cut as much as possible.Originally released in 1992 and directed by Albert Pyun (director of "Captain America," "Slinger," and "Invasion"), the film centers on the character Alex Rain (perfectly played by Olivier Gruner of the independent films "Velocity Trap," "Sector 4," and the up-coming "Executive Protection"), who is an LAPD police officer going against cyber-terrorists. The character himself has been augmented with robotic replacement parts, from his eyes to his legs and skull. After an operation at the beginning of the film, he's repaired once again and given a vacation where he attempts to find his humanity.The protagonist of the film is Chief of LA Police, Farnsworth (masterfully played by Tim Thomerson from "Dollman" and "Trancers"), who is a cyborg of his own right involved in a massive conspiracy to infiltrate and take over the planet. He begins to use Rain as a pawn in that conspiracy, but his loyalty to a female cyborg - Jared (played by the beautiful and very talented Marjorie Monaghan) - brings him to not only rebel against his cyborg superiors but bring back his humanity.It's a great story of not only personal redemption but also what it takes to be human. It can be seen as a perfect metaphor of the increasingly technological world we all live in. Director Pyun's masterful storytelling comes out as usual, but was hindered when it was theatrically released. The only way I was able to see how the film was initially intended was when I purchased the director's cut a couple of years ago. It definitely keeps a seat in my science- fiction collection as a hallmark in robotic SF filmmaking.If you are a fan of smart SF, great action, and incredible special effects (done by Fantasy II, which did the SFX for the first two "Terminator" films), then you will absolutely love "Nemesis v2.0." Please support Mr. Pyun in purchasing his vision of the film. Trust me: just like with "Slinger," you will not be disappointed.

I mean really.... burn the reels. I never write reviews for movies. Even if I love them. But this one..... This one was such a total... complete waste of my and your time that I decided to register on IMDb and give this lemon some colour.I was a little hesitant to watch this movie. The out line seemed good and the actors were recognized, but I still felt like passing this puppy up to rot. I should have let it at that. But no.... I had to watch it. That'll teach me to go against my gut.BTW; Sparks don't fly from guns. Even futuristic ones.

I found some originality in this film. OK there is a lot of movies similar to this. This movie is about cyborgs who wants to take over the world and there is a cop who wants to stop them. Actually the story is a little complicated, because there is a lot of different characters with a different interests and all of them are cyborgs, one of them want to destroy humanity, the others want to stop them and that's what makes the story so complicated. The other thing that I found being original was that cyborgs didn't wanted to kill the people, but they wanted to make a cyborgs out of them. The action sequences were all great, especially the shoot-out scenes. There was a lot of energy in this film, the characters were fighting, jumping from the different heights, there is a lot of great stunts and acrobatic tricks and it just doesn't stop, I can't find the right words to describe it, but it was great.

Olivier Gruner stars as Alex Rain, a cyborg who has lost all his faith in humanity after barely walking away with his life after a gun fight with terrorists, However his former employers want him back and they want him to get rid of a renegade agent and to insure that he does this deed, they implant a bomb in his heart, not impressed by his former employer's antics Rain goes AWOL and joins the rebels. There are many similarities between this and Pyun's other movie Cyborg. Although where as I remember everyone in Cyborg laughing at the antics on screen, I remember everyone walking out of this one saying how good it was. I however was no fan. I thought the narrative was a bit hard to follow and while the action sequences were well staged, I often found myself distracted by the circumstances surrounding them. (Same thing with Cyborg.) However Nemesis is better than Cyborg, there is more depth in the script however there isn't enough exploring of the depth that could have made this thing great. Indeed there are some very good moments to be found here but had Pyun explored these (Mainly the relationship between Gruner and the renegade agent Jared(Played well by Marjorie Monaghan) as well as Gruner's dilemma to being a cyborg) Nemesis might have really been something. Nemesis has it's fans and I can see why, I just was often bored with the corporate clichés and confused narrative. Ed note:However it's still way better than any of the sequels, so if you must watch one from this prolific series, see only this one. * * out of 4-(Fair)