Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4 Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		2.0
Video		3.5
Audio		4.0
Extras		1.5
Overall		2.0

Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4 Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman April 15, 2020

If Nemesis often played like a B-movie version of Blade Runner (with, as my Nemesis Blu-ray review mentioned, just a hint of RoboCop at times), Albert Pyun’s several follow-ups ended up reminding me, if only in passing, of any number of other notable science fiction film and television properties, including everything from The Terminator Anthology, The Phantasm Collection, Orphan Black: The Complete Series and even Ghost in the Shell. That may suggest a certain undeniably patchwork ambience to many of these low budget offerings, but Pyun often stages things surprisingly well, all things considered. All three films in this set feature Sue Price starring as Alex Sinclair, and it's kind of interesting to note that among Price's few other credits on IMDb are Nemesis 5: The New Model and the probably not so coincidentally named RoboWoman.

For reviews of the films in this set, please click on the following links:

Nemesis 2: Nebula Blu-ray review

Nemesis 3: Time Lapse Blu-ray review

Nemesis 4: Death Angel Blu-ray review

Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4 Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4 Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4 Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

MVD Visual has packaged this with all three films on one disc. The disc's bonus content includes:

• Albert Pyun Talks Nemesis 2: Nebula (480i; 30:38) is the first of three similar quasi-commentaries which offer Pyun offering audio background and assessment as scenes from the film play, though his comments are not always (or even) scene specific. He gets into some of the kind of interesting challenges he set for himself in this film, including intentionally not having any tracking or dolly shots, something that led to an undue number of new setups every day. He also discusses the casting and some of the other production issues. The title of this piece has an kind of weird Über in it on this supplement, which makes me think perhaps this was done for some German language release, though Pyun's commentary is in English.


• Nemesis 2: Nebula Trailer (1080p; 1:49)


• Albert Pyun Talks Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (480i; 17:00) is another audio commentary by Pyun which plays to snippets of the film (and this one, too, has Über in it. Pyun talks about filming this in tandem with Nemesis 2: Nebula, and he is of the perhaps debatable opinion that this film has more plot to offer than Nemesis 2.


• Nemesis 3: Time Lapse Trailer (480p; 1:49)


• Albert Pyun Talks Nemesis 4: Death Angel (480i; 19:37) follows suit with the two others commentaries in this set, with Pyun offering comments that play to scenes from the film. He talks about what sparked this entry in the franchise, and how Sue Price's face had changed, which Pyun chalks up to bodybuilding drugs!


• Nemesis 4: Death Angel Trailer (480p; 2:11)

Additionally this comes with a folded mini-poster.

Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4 Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

If by some chance there are Nemesis completists out there, you're almost all the way home (I frankly didn't even know about Nemesis 5 until I started doing research for this review). Video is a little iffy on all three of these ( Nemesis 4 the least), but audio is fine, and the three quasi-commentaries by Pyun intermittently interesting, for those considering a purchase.