Nemesis III: Prey Harder

Nemesis 3 is the worst movie what I have ever seen!!! I think that Nemesis 3 was only 30 minutes long. And that movie was so boo-oo-ring. When that movie ends and I saw word: NEMESIS 4... I thought I will...NOT watch that movie never again.

The butch lesbian continues to run around for no apparent reason battling cyborgs to save the future or some $#!+ like it. Nemesis 3 isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. I agree that the flashback scenarios are irritating and the twin cyborgs are annoying as hell but this is still relatively decent straight to video action movie. The action sequences are pretty good with a lot of explosions, some of the cyberpunk elements are actually fairly good and Sue Price running around in her 3 foot tall muscular frame is, uuuuuh, sexy I guess if you like that feminine manly crap. Very very very very far from the best movie ever made but it's not too terrible. I've seen a lot worse I guess.

There's something about a movie that features female bodybuilders that gets me in front of the screen every time.

I've seen "Pumping Iron II", "Aces: Iron Eagle III", "Raven Hawk", and even the TV movie "Getting Physical", which featured some big names in the sport. They were tolerable in their own ways (mostly, because they featured Rachel McLish. ROWWR!!).

Then I went and watched "Nemesis III: Prey Harder", on the sole basis that it featured such luminaries as Sue Price, Debbie Muggli, Sharon Bruneau and Ursula Sarcev. Love the ladies, always will, but after this I'm kinda glad I missed the first two "Nemesis" flicks.

Well, the first one, anyway. Most of the footage here is lifted bodily (and kicking and screaming, I would guess) from "Nemesis II". Actually, that one looked marginally entertaining from the evidence supplied here.

But even though Price and company flex and pose, they don't get much of a chance to do anything else (like, say, ACT!). In fact, this whole film is an exercise (Get it? Ha-ha...) in oblique story-telling, ambiguous characters and open-ended movie-making (in terms of filming as well as the story-line).

Nothing makes much sense but even if it did, there would still be issues - such as making such small parts for such larger-than-life women as these. What a crime.

Of course, it was written and directed by Albert Pyun, so what did you expect: cohesion?

One star only, in consideration for all the hard work that Price, Muggli, Bruneau and Sarcev obviously put into their bodies, NOT the "craft" work done within the movie itself.

Thanks, ladies.

Nemesis III Prey Harder otherwise known as Nemesis III Time Lapse is a contender for the worst movie in the franchise and that's really saying something.

The third Nemesis movie but seventh movie overall in the Cyborg (1989) franchise (Yeah it still confuses me as well) follows directly on from Nemesis II but that's just about all it has to its credit.

3 of these movies were made within the space of 2 years, that may explain why they're so poor.

Picking up from Alex's adventure as the sole hope for humanity's battle against the cyborgs and yadayadayada. Sue Price returns looking like a great action heroine in a movie that is quite frankly beneath her.

Industry veteran and original Nemesis (1992) star Tim Thomerson returns and is on usual great form but nothing can make up for the dreadful cast around him.

Awful sfx, snoozefest of a plot and absolutely nothing going for it this is the absolute pits within a franchise that's consistently bad anyway.

The Good:

Follows on well from Nemesis 2 (1995)

Tim Thomerson

The Bad:

Naff cgi

Plot is terrible

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Girls love stamp collections

Alex (Sue Price) has ended up stranded in the East African wilderness, and she has no idea how she got there. Soon encountering the obviously not-to-be-trusted "Farnsworth 2" (comedian / B movie icon Tim Thomerson), Alex ultimately flashes back to the previous 22 hours, in which she had learned that she has almost two dozen half-sisters who wish for her to return to 2077.

The screenplay is potentially quite confusing, but it's clear that writing is not B movie veteran Albert Pyuns' strong point. Mostly, he sets up some undemanding low-budget genre nonsense, with some decent action & explosions, a barrage of tacky visual effects, a solid music score by Tony Riparetti, and a welcome sense of humor.

Prices' acting improves a bit from the previous sequel, but her real asset remains her incredible physicality. Thomerson, as always, provides an excellent villain, and Pyun repertory player Norbert Weisser is likewise fun as a wise-cracking mercenary. The real highlight is the pair of camp performances by Sharon Bruneau & Debbie Muggli as two lookalike, blonde wig-wearing cyborg goons. They have good chemistry and get some good laughs.

Overall, this wasn't as entertaining as the previous movie with Price, and only truly die-hard lovers of this kind of techno-cheese may really get into it.

Five out of 10.