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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Director: Stuart Baird
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Tom Hardy, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner
Writers: John Logan, Rick Berman, Brent Spiner
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a nut shell what I didn't like about Nemesis is this: there was little focus on the Star Trek world and the established characters, with almost no world building or character exploration. Instead there was a lot of focus on block buster Hollywood style action. And there was too much focus on the bad guy played by Tom Hardy, which left little time for the Star Trek crew to have any meaningful lines.
The director, Stuart Baird has only three films to his directorial credit and is mostly known as an action film editor. And that's what he did to Nemesis turned it into a Hollywood action flick. You could take the Star Trek crew out of the picture and it wouldn't even matter to the film. Besides the short wedding scene, there's nothing really Star Trek about the film. The ST crew needs to be endemic to any ST movie.
Even some of the cast members have had harsh criticism for the director. Marina Sirtis called him an 'idiot' and a 'son of a bitch'. On the movie's DVD extras she said the director didn't know a thing about the Star Trek universe and didn't even know that Geordi La Forge was a human, he thought he was an alien because of the artificial eyes.
To me the film seems to disrespect what the ST crew was all about. Which is not surprising because reportedly the director was said to have hated the Star Trek franchise and refused to watch any of the TV episodes. It feels like he thumbed his nose at the ST universe and made Nemesis into another no-brainier action flick.
But worse the film has the stupidest plot line of any ST film, that includes the often maligned Star Trek V. There;s Remus the lesser twin world of Romulus where the Reman's are slave labor and a human clone of Picard is sent to that slave world as a child. So the Picard clone rises up in a slave revolt and somehow manages to get the baddest ass war ship ever constructed (how?) and a huge army all from a bunch of slaves? Then instead of using his death ray to exact revenge on his Romulan slave masters as one would expect, he decides to destroy Earth instead. That's all bush league writing.
Though the most inane thing in the movie is that stupid off road car chase with Picard driving on the desert planet...Especially stupid is it's death defying jump off a cliff and into the back of a waiting shuttle
People watch the Star Wars franchise for silliness, err I mean fun...Star Trek was always a thinking person's franchise...that is until Nemesis and later JJ Abrams got a hold of it.
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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Director: Stuart Baird
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Tom Hardy, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner
Writers: John Logan, Rick Berman, Brent Spiner
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a nut shell what I didn't like about Nemesis is this: there was little focus on the Star Trek world and the established characters, with almost no world building or character exploration. Instead there was a lot of focus on block buster Hollywood style action. And there was too much focus on the bad guy played by Tom Hardy, which left little time for the Star Trek crew to have any meaningful lines.
The director, Stuart Baird has only three films to his directorial credit and is mostly known as an action film editor. And that's what he did to Nemesis turned it into a Hollywood action flick. You could take the Star Trek crew out of the picture and it wouldn't even matter to the film. Besides the short wedding scene, there's nothing really Star Trek about the film. The ST crew needs to be endemic to any ST movie.
Even some of the cast members have had harsh criticism for the director. Marina Sirtis called him an 'idiot' and a 'son of a bitch'. On the movie's DVD extras she said the director didn't know a thing about the Star Trek universe and didn't even know that Geordi La Forge was a human, he thought he was an alien because of the artificial eyes.
To me the film seems to disrespect what the ST crew was all about. Which is not surprising because reportedly the director was said to have hated the Star Trek franchise and refused to watch any of the TV episodes. It feels like he thumbed his nose at the ST universe and made Nemesis into another no-brainier action flick.
But worse the film has the stupidest plot line of any ST film, that includes the often maligned Star Trek V. There;s Remus the lesser twin world of Romulus where the Reman's are slave labor and a human clone of Picard is sent to that slave world as a child. So the Picard clone rises up in a slave revolt and somehow manages to get the baddest ass war ship ever constructed (how?) and a huge army all from a bunch of slaves? Then instead of using his death ray to exact revenge on his Romulan slave masters as one would expect, he decides to destroy Earth instead. That's all bush league writing.
Though the most inane thing in the movie is that stupid off road car chase with Picard driving on the desert planet...Especially stupid is it's death defying jump off a cliff and into the back of a waiting shuttle
People watch the Star Wars franchise for silliness, err I mean fun...Star Trek was always a thinking person's franchise...that is until Nemesis and later JJ Abrams got a hold of it.-