Three of my friends and I just finished seeing it. Only one of my friends disliked it and the rest of us were positive. My friend who disliked the movie said this, "I don't know....I just wasn't wowed by it."
I think that is truly appropriate. I wasn't 'wowed' by it either. But unlike my friend, I can still walk away satisfied from a movie even though it didn't wow me. It was fair. I'd give it a 6.5 out of 10. Its just too bad that my friend can only be satisfied with movies that are perfect 10's.
My ranking for Next Generation movies from best to worst:
1.) First Contact
2.) Nemesis
3.) Generations
4.) Insurrection
My ranking for all Trek films (including Next Gen) Best to Worst:
1.) Wrath of Khan
2.) Undiscovered Country
3.) Search for Spock
4.) First Contact
5.) The Motion Picture
6.) Nemesis
7.) Voyage Home
8.) Generations
9.) Insurrection
10.) Final Frontier
BIG SPOILERS < > BIG SPOILERS < > BIG SPOILERS
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Yes, there were tons of things that were logically wrong with this movie. Actually, all Trek films had some holes in the logic department. Its just the best Trek films had very very small ones and only one or two.
Every other Trek film had its share too. So does 'Nemesis'. Here they are. IMO
1.) I may have missed it, but did they reveal a point to why Troi was mentally violated?
2.) As big as the Scimitar was, I assumed it could carry a rather huge crew. Yet, their boarding part to the Enterprise numbered to be about to 8-10 maybe.
3.) Why is the radiation build up chamber next to the bridge?
4.) Why do exterior personel hatches on the Scimitar have no security codes for access? ( I guess we could maybe explain it and say that no one puts them in because the shields are normally up. But still....how much extra money would it have cost to put that feature on all the exterior hatches?)
5.) Why did the engineer of the Scimitar build spikey stuff in the radiation build up chamber? Ok....we know the real reason why. But a fanboy defense would be to say: Because maybe the required components, that are integral to the device, require the shapes to be pointy. For whatever reasons behind its physics. Conductivity, directional focus....etc, etc. Whatever, we know its so bad guys can get impaled on them.
6.) How'd did Picard know he had enough strength to bend the spikey metal thing off the wall in time to impale his foe? Man, would'nt it suck if Picard went to go do that move and then it didn't budge? Boy, talk about embarrassment.
7.) Obviously, in the future, soldiers are no longer trained on how to proceed through close quarter combat areas. Through out this movie, all firefights begin with people casually strolling along, then accidently bumping into each other, THEN getting into combat readiness. The most powerful boarding party in the Trek universe would be a squad of SWAT policemen transported from the past. Teleport them onto any ship and they would destroy all aboard.
Okay, enough of me bagging on all the silly holes of logic in Nemesis. Let me point out the cool stuff too.
1.) I thought Shinzon was a cool concept for a bad guy. The actor who portrayed him did a great job. And yes, he didn't look exactly like Picard. But heck, its close enough.
2.) The Romulan bird of preys where SWEET as heck. I'm glad to see a new design for the Romulans. And unlike the Scimitar design (which I thought was just so-so)...the new bird of preys looked sweet. Also they still kept within the established design sense that is recognized as being 'Romulan' style ships.
3.) Dina Meyer as Commander Donatra is cool. Ain't nothing wrong with a sharp looking Romulan lady.
Hmmm......Dina Meyer plays a Commander helming a Romulan bird of prey. It gets shot down and put out of the fight. Dina Meyer plays Oracle on WB's "Birds of Prey" which is shot down by viewers and gets canceled. Hmmm.
4.) The ship battle was cool. Although I saw a few lost opportunities to do really really cool stuff, it was still cool nevertheless.
Then there are things I would've just liked to have seen but I'm perfectly okay without seeing them.
-Wished I could've seen a cameo of the 'Titan' at the end. In Undiscovered Country its cool how you see the Enterprise and the Excelsior part ways before the credit sequence. Maybe something similar like that would've been cool.
-Heard a rumor that Ashley Judd was willing to do a small cameo as Wesley's wife. That would've been cool. Too bad it was cut. Or the idea was dropped.
-Wished they would've thought of a way to incorporate the rest of the fleet battle group that the Enterprise was trying to meet up with.
How cool would that have been if, at a moment where the Enterprise and the two other bird of preys are on the ropes, in comes all those Federation ships to the rescue. They suspected something was amiss and took the initiative to go meet the Enterprise. However they found the battle site...they do arrive and start in on the Scimitar. Because I've always wanted to see a big high budget movie battle with lots of Federation Ships. The one at the beginning of First Contact was sweet. But too short! I want to see more.
Too unbalanced a fight you say? But the Scimitar powers up its radiation main cannon thingy and starts killing crew after crew of all these ships. The audience would be like, "Oh my g........."
Then, the Enterprise can use the last of its powers to ram the Scimitar. My friend and I were also saying how cool it would've been if.....after ramming the Scimitar, the Enterprise, with what little energy it has left, fires it phasers at point blank range right into the Scimitar's hull. Didn't they say they had enough energy left to fire about four or five phaser banks or something? Don't remember. Surely full impulse didn't take all that energy. Well, you could always tweak the script to write it so it does have enough energy to do both. Heh heh.
Anyways.....should of ......could of.........whatever. I don't mind.
Still enjoyed the movie. Not great cinema. But good fair fun. I'll pick it up on DVD. Where as with 'Insurrection' and 'Final Frontier', I still will not buy.
