Nemesis (film)

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Nemesis is a 1993 science fiction film by director Albert Pyun, who also made the movie Cyborg.

[edit] Plot

The film stars Olivier Gruner as a burned out police assassin named Alex. During a mission for his bosses in the futuristic LAPD, he kills several freedom fighters, including one of the leaders, Rosaria (Jennifer Gatti). He tries to leave the LAPD, and he becomes a petty criminal, doing odd jobs in the underworld. However his LAPD bosses are just letting him run free for a while, and when they need him, they get him. His old boss Farnsworth (played by Tim Thomerson) later has him kidnapped.

They bring him back for one last mission to kill the leaders of the freedom fighters. The only problem is, the freedom fighters ("Red Army Hammerheads") are not fighting against government control of people's lives, but for humanity's future. A new race of androids is infiltrating human society, copying the minds of certain people into robotic bodies, and making them loyal to the cyborg cause. Alex discovers he has a bomb implanted in his arm, and he has to find the leader of the freedom fighters (played by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) to get the bomb deactivated. He finds the leaders and joins the cause of the freedom fighters. But as they are making their escape in an aerodyne, a cyborg that was thought destroyed attacks, and Alex is revealed to be a cyborg himself!

The evil cyborg is defeated, and the aerodyne flies off. The movie ends with Alex defeating his rival on a rooftop. Alex walks off with his sidekick (played by Merle Kennedy) and they joke about how they are going to smuggle his metallic body through Los Angeles customs.