Nemesis III: Prey Harder

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

I really wanted to like this film. The second film in the series had this silly, drive in movie feel to it that was fun (of course, I was also drunk). I watched this film with the highest expectation of a similar experience of high cinematic hilarity, a-la- Mystery Science Theater 3000. I WAS WRONG!!!!! This movie is a god awful waste of film, and I LIKED THE SECOND ONE!!!! From the effeminate villain with the David Bowie fright wig, to the tacky, obnoxious female villains with laughs that could strip the paint off a garage door, this whole thing was just a painful mess. I actually felt bad for Sue Price, because the material was beneath an actress of her stature (that pretty much says it all). An awful, awful film (that's not a recommendation).

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.

While the law of diminishing returns can be rigidly applied to, Albert Pyun's kinetic Cyberpunk tetralogy 'Nemesis', the fitfully fabulous franchise's conspicuously declining production values, and overreliance on flashbacks to pad out the increasingly bizarre narrative proves irksome, and yet, even with all its obvious recycling 'Nemesis 3 : Time Lapse', contains enough unrestrained lunacy to appease more forgiving 'Nemesis' aficionados. Taken as a standalone work, this admittedly patchy, frequently silly Sci-fi shenanigans may seem inconsequential, more seasoned schlock seekers will no doubt revel in its myriad eccentricities!

The film's strengths reside in the welcome return of dread locked, Sue Price as the dynamic, DNA-mutated Amazon, Alex Rain, undertaking a quest to locate her equally ripped warrior siblings she was latterly unaware of! Girding her magnificent loins, our hypertrophically muscled heroine must grimly battle her way across war-ravaged Africa, these bloody travails cementing the legend of her fearsome fighting prowess! Alex's main obstacles being dastardly droid, Farnsworth 2 (Tim Thomerson) and the two sinuously sleek, garishly garbed cyber assassins, Lock (Sharon Bruneau) & Ditko (Debbie Mugli), their outrageously camp performances providing an additionally tweaked weirdness to psychotronic shoot 'em up 'Nemesis 3 : Time lapse'.

It's highly unlikely that great numbers of Sci-Fight fans will go on to watch the 4th Nemesis instalment after witnessing this frequently misfiring oddity, but I must profess to having a genuine affection for this absurd, boisterously bullet-shredded, cyber Kooky action tetralogy! The juicily jacked, Sue Price is one of the most entertaining, physically adept, serially Cyborg retiring B-Movie heroines, and even with all its strident silliness 'Nemesis 3 : Time lapse' remains a frantically fun, albeit terminally trashy Sci-fantasy freakshow from beloved B-Movie maestro, Albert Pyun!