5.6 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
NEMESIS 4: CRY OF ANGELS: Following an uneasy ceasefire between the humans and the cyborgs, Alex Sinclair (Sue Price) is making a living in the future working as a cybernetically-enhanced assassin for her boss Bernardo (Andrew Divoff, Wishmaster). But when Alex accidentally targets the wrong man and kills the son of a major crime syndicate head, she finds herself on the run once again as every assassin in town comes to collect the bounty on her.
Starring: Andrew Divoff, Nicholas Guest, Simon Poland, Norbert Weisser, Sue PriceSci-Fi | 100% |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.19:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.20:1
English: LPCM 2.0 (48kHz, 16-bit)
BDInfo
None
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Note: This film is available as part of Nemesis 2 / Nemesis 3 / Nemesis 4.
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.
Nemesis 4: Death Angel is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of MVD Rewind Collection, an imprint of MVD Visual, with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.17:1. This is probably the best looking of the three Nemesis films included in this collection, with a rather nicely burnished palette (though one that does tend to skew slightly towards orange at times). A surplus of close-ups supports good fine detail levels on things like facial pores and even some of the make-up some of the characters sport. What I'm considering were traditionally composited effects can look a bit rough at times, with less abundant detail and a grittier appearance. As with its two predecessors, the outdoor material in this film tends to look the best, and primaries in particular in those scenes pop extremely well. My score is 3.75.
Nemesis 4: Death Angel features an LPCM 2.0 track that provides capable support for the film's dialogue and almost nonstop use of wind effects. There are other sound effects that dot the track, including things like helicopter rotors or gunfire, and those all reverberate with sufficient force as well. There are some minor sync issues, which I'm thinking might be due at least in part to some post-looping. There are no problems with regard to distortion, dropouts or other damage.
MVD Visual has packaged this with all three films on one disc. The disc's bonus content includes:
Nemesis 4: Death Angel is probably the most competently produced and shot (and maybe even acted) of the three films in this set, but it's so divorced from the original concept that it's almost hard to see why it was marketed as a Nemesis property. Technical merits are generally solid for those considering a purchase.
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