Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) review

Whilst the previous installment nearly ensured that I would die halfway throughout the film, Star Trek: Nemesis for the most part keeps me rather engaged in the film even if there is almost nothing special about the film, except the fact that I do not need to suffer by watching another TNG film. 

Tom Hardy plays a clone of Picard who is slowly dying and must need Picard's blood to stop the process of his death after an incident involving time. This clone also attempts to destroy Earth for some reason. 



What I hate about most Trek films is the fact that they do not properly dedicate enough time to explain the plot. When you take a look at the original trilogy, just in terms of how they explain the plot, it is done simplistically yet effectively, ensuring that even the dumbest can follow the storyline. Most of the Star Trek films suffer from extremely poor writing and execution, Nemesis is one of them. Despite this, the basic premise is enough to keep one engaged throughout the film even if it isn't properly explained. 

Patrick Stewart never throughout the series seemed to give an exceptional performance but always a passable performance as Picard. Never does he give a performance, even to the standards of William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy from the original films. The rest of the cast do a decent job, even Tom Hardy, who I've grown to love from films such as The Dark Knight Rises and Inception. All the performances are decent with none ever grabbing one's attention, especially mine. 



As ordinary as the performances are, this film has some truly great character moments mainly with Data at the end of the film. The pacing is nothing but decent as most of the "bad" Trek films have. There are a few moments when the story becomes extremely intense and exciting, thanks to some fine action sequences in this film. The effects seem to have definitely improved from the horrible effects of the previous nightmare.

This film does a rather decent job and bidding a much needed farewell to our characters and by the end of the film, despite yet feeling unsatisfying, I was thankful that these old Trek films were done! Star Trek Nemesis is nothing but an ordinary Trek film with some surprisingly good action, decent acting, poor writing and direction in some ways but also decent in other ways. 'Nemesis' is most definitely not worse than the previous installment and by no stretch one of the worst, but also isn't very interesting. 

Grade- 6/10