NEMESIS 2: NEBULA (1995)
Is this a well-regarded franchise and I just don't know it? There had to be some level of interest for there to be so many sequels. Nemesis 5 was cranked out in 2017. Why? I mean, who was begging for an extrapolation of what was basically a low-rent Cyborg? I rented the original years ago from an honest-to-God video store, but my memories are cloudy. Apparently, Nebula is set in the future (of the future). Cyborgs have won a civil war, and human rebels have turned to science for salvation. New DNA is injected into a "volunteer." You know what that means, don't you? We've got a hybrid baby on our hands! The mother is deemed a fugitive, so she is sent through a wormhole to East Africa. Or is it Los Angeles? Wait, I'm jumping ahead. We cut to twenty years later - future present day, if you will. I'm discombobulated. Maybe a paragraph break will help me sort this out.
An automaton assassin from the future-future is sent to kill the hybrid baby, now a full-grown woman. I'm still discombobulated. To be perfectly honest, I only watched this flick because there is a cool robot on the cover. It yearns to be an ultra-modern amalgamation of Predator and Terminator 2. Personally, I would put it somewhere between Split Second and...um, Nemesis 3. Director Albert Pyun was capable of making sci-fi cheese in his sleep, so from a technical standpoint, Nemesis 2 ticks the right boxes. Unfortunately, the minimal use of dialogue ends up working against the film. It's not a very stimulating sit, with or without a cool robot. Trivia! Nemesis 2, 3, and 4 were all intended to be one giant movie. Egads, talk about dodging a bullet.
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