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Paramount
- Cert:
- Cat.no: PHE 8294
- Running time: 112 minutes
- Year: 2002
- Pressing: 2003
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: 24 plus extras
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Languages: English, German
- Subtitles: 6 languages available
- Widescreen: 2.35:1
- 16:9-Enhanced: Yes
- Macrovision: Yes
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £19.99
- Extras : Director’s Commentary, 4 Featurettes, Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery
Director:
- Stuart Baird
(Executive Decision, Star Trek: Nemesis, US Marshals)
Producer:
- Rick Berman
Screenplay:
- John Logan (based on story by John Logan, Rick Berman & Brent Spiner)
Music:
- Jerry Goldsmith
Cast:
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Commander Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Data: Brent Spiner
Geordi: Levar Burton
Worf: Michael Dorn
Dr. Beverly Crusher: Gates McFadden
Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Shinzon: Tom Hardy
Viceroy: Ron Perlman
Senator Tal’aura: Shannon Cochran
Commander Donatra: Dina Meyer
Commander Suran: Jude Ciccolella
Praetor Hiren: Alan Dale
Senator: John Berg
Admiral Kathryn Janeway: Kate Mulgrew
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
Guinan: Whoopi Goldberg
Starfleet Bridge Officer: Bryan Singer
Shinzon, the new bad guy
Star Trek: Nemesisis the tenth – and planned to be the final – film in the Star Treksaga, but who knows how the money machine will play out in future?
In this movie, it’s time for the Romulans and Remans to forget about theirworries and their strife and call a truce. Alas, something’s afoot sincewithin four minutes the entire Romulan senate, including Praetor Hiren(an even more wooden Alan Dale than he is as Vice President Prescottin’24’),are dead and someone’s to blame.That someone is Nemesis‘ chief bad guy and baldy-bonce Shinzon(Tom Hardy). Why is he bald? Why does he look like Picard (Patrick Stewart) so much?Just think of Dolly the Sheep…
Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Troi (Marina Sirtis) have takenthings one step further and got married, but there’s not much time for ahappy honeymoon as someone or something’s screwing with her mind, there’sthe appearance of Thalaron radiation – something so dangerous it could killall of the Enterprise crew within seconds and when Picard, Worf and Datafind a duplicate Data head on a far away planet, you just know that one’sgoing to turn out to be bad news.
For this final edition there’s nothing complex or any sidetracking subplots,just a one-track story that doesn’t deviate. There’s nothing wrong with thatas overall it makes for an entertaining two-hour romp with all the panacheof a camp melodrama and any film in the series, even the fifth one, absolutelydumps overStar Trek: Insurrectionfrom a great height.
However, you must prepare for the screen death of a major character – and I’mnot talking about the uncredited cameo ofX-MenandUsual Suspectsdirector Bryan Singer as a Starfleet bridge officer.
You lookin’ at me?
the 10-Movie DVD Box Set
All of the featurettes are in 4:3 fullscreen, although contain 2.35:1 letterboxedfilm clips and interviews shot in 16:9 letterbox, so why not make the wholething anamorphic widescreen? The extras are as follows:
- New Frontiers: Stuart Baird on Directing “Nemesis” (9 mins):For a man who’s only directed a handful of films, he’s edited on many moreincluding 2005’s forthcoming Die Hard 4: Die Hardest, and here heexplains how he got what he wanted out of the cast and crew in a frank manner,but it’s all too brief a featurette.
- A Bold Vision of the Final Frontier (10 mins):From storyboards to screen, plus that final moment I can’t reveal, as it’s aspoiler!
- A Star Trek Family’s Final Journey (16 mins):Chat from the cast and crew and the point of view of the screenwriterJohn Logan.
- Red Alert! Shooting the Action of “Nemesis” (10 mins):A brief low-down on the action sequences.
- Deleted Scenes (20 mins):Seven of them in letterbox 2.35:1, with an introduction from producer RickBerman and various other cast/crew. These are some of the 45 minutes thatwas excised to leave the final cut running at 112 minutes. It’s easy to seewhy most of them were left out, but they do make for interesting viewingas supplemental material. I’d have left in the lift scene and the one withPicard’s new chair.
- Photo Gallery:40 pictures.
- Director’s Commentary:Does exactly what it says on the tin.
There are 24 chapters to the film, subtitles are in English for the hard ofhearing, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Polish and Turkish. The menus are green likethe colour of the box and fit in with the theme of the piece but sub-menusmostly copy each other.
Finally a message must go to the luxurious packaging, with the standard DVDcase inside a cardboard outer box, and inside it all an envelope containingdetails about the forthcoming 4-disc Indiana Jones Trilogy DVD boxset.Oh, I so hope they allow the second film to be uncut this time, but I somehowdoubt it.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.