Nemesis 5: The New Model

I usually count on the ratings on IMDB but wow. How this "movie" got anything above a 3 is beyond me. From the bad acting to the grade school special effects to the guy with a mini cam cinematography. Sorry gang, you really got this one wrong.

Whoa first it had the longest buildup w credits then credits again wth???So is this an official Nemesis film? If yes why? The acting is non descript, the action scenes are atrocious. It almost feels like a fan movie or something. Oh and using toy plastic laser guns is too obvious. So hmm why a two? Well the music is actually pretty damn cool, its the only redeeming quality of this movie. Oh and the chicks are cool some classic from the franchise and some not. So I take it another tax write off.

After two plus decades without a Nemesis movie we finally got one here. And it's about time! Thank God because I was planning on killing myself if another one didn't come to fruition. Nemesis 5 has everything: ugly actors, CGI so bad even a blind man can perceive it, horrible acting, cheesy EBM soundtrack, abysmal action sequences, excruciatingly slow pacing and meaningless fillers and, the cherry on top, one of the worst anticlimactic endings of all time. And, of course, it has a political message involving communism battling fascism which is mentally deficient. Anyways, I can't keep up the charade. This movie sucked and is nowhere near as good as the first three Nemesis movies but I will say this; it was better than Nemesis 4. So there's a plus. You might get a chuckle out of this one but this is the Hindenburg times infinity. For maniacal and desperate completists at the very best.

In my opinion this film is for the hardcore fans of the franchise only and even for the hardcore fan it might test their patience. I enjoyed seeing Sue Price make a brief appearance. I enjoyed the music. I enjoyed seeing this director's take on the Nebula, it was kind of Tron like, I dug the effects. It was also nice to see the twins given an homage even though they don't look that close to the originals. This film made me think that a super fan of the franchise made it. I felt the same way after seeing Phantasm Ravager. At the end of the day I'm glad I saw it. Whether people think it was good bad or ugly I hope the franchise continues.

The New Model is the 10th movie in the Cyborg/Nemesis franchise which started all the way back in 1989 with Jean Claude Van-Damme's Cyborg. 21 years after the last movie from the series was made (Nemesis 4 1996) it returns with this "delight".

You see the movies have never been been good, they've simply ranged from bad to very bad but this is certainly a new low.

Sue Price returns yet again as Alex though only briefly. I can only assume she returned for the nostalgia or must have been desperate for money.

You see here is the issue, though all the Cyborg/Nemesis movies were bad they at least looked the b-movie part whereas this is something else altogether. The New Model is a hyper low budget independent movie which truth be told I'm absolutely stunned at the quality of (Or lack thereof). Instead of professional b-movie, this is VHS camcorder, toy laser guns and dreadful Adobe Aftereffects sfx.

No really, I can't stress enough how bad it looks. It's one stage up from being done on someones phone, the acting is some of the worst I've seen in years, the sfx are cringe inducing and the whole thing is really embarrassing.

Whatever my opinions of the franchise it really didn't deserve this. Considering they started in the 80's and this was released in 2017 it raises all kind of questions why this is the ugliest and cheapest of them all.

Incredibly there is another one in production, this is a franchise that died in the 90's but nobody had the heart to tell it.

The Good:

Absolutely nothing

The Bad:

Beyond ugly

Dreadful CGI

Cringe inducing acting

The fight sequences are some of the worst ever put to film

Awful filler scenes

Stock screams