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Nemesis 2: Nebula(Movie), Nemesis 3: Time Lapse(Movie), Nemesis 4: Death Angel(Movie), Knights(Movie), Omega Doom(Movie), Cyborg(Movie), Trancers(Movie), Split Second(Movie), Dollman(Movie), Rage(Movie), Hong Kong 97(Movie), Firepower(Movie)
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i don't know what caused it (when in doubt, blame fred olen ray movies lowering your movie standards forever) but everything you can knock pyun for i'm finding myself impossibly charmed by lately. cold and stilted, limited scope, cardboard characters, seemingly written by someone who doesn't know how humans interact. i guess because of this and cyborg people consider him an "action director," and don't get me wrong he definitely knows how to shoot that shit, but the main attraction is this very specific aesthetic which is almost... cronenbergian? which, channeled through low budget action read
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nemesis crackles with energy and demonstrable 'cool' as thunderous gunplay dominates the movie. in that sense, it's not unlike an old video game from the era of boxy televisions and controllers with three buttons. sometimes, all you needed to do was jump and shoot as you navigated the futuristic hellscape of some dystopian city, rendered in full, with all 16 bits blazing. nemesis feels just like that, from the hero's name- "alex rain", to the fact he fights cyborgs, gangsters, and the like. not even the guns in this movie feel real. they behave more like pickups from metal slug. albert pyun... read
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