Nemesis (1992)

Olivier Gruner changes hairstyles five times in the first 30 minutes!

This is a great companion piece to Albert Pyun’s prior sci-fi/action effort Cyborg. It’s all here once again: the breathless camera work, excessive explosions, wild and clearly risky stunt-work, and inventively-staged action sequences. 

The plot is needlessly complicated and often nonsensical. It doesn’t help that half the cast aren’t native English speakers so we get bargain basement JCVD (Gruner) attempting quip after quip with a heavy accent to no avail. Things sound so garbled that when a character named Max Impact (who looks like a K-Mart version of Lori Petty, this was the 90s after all) introduces herself, it sounds like her name is Maxi Pad. 

If the story were more coherent, this could easily have been a b-movie masterpiece considering the scope of Pyun’s vision, but for now it’s a mildly fun flick with dynamite action.