"Nemesis" A masterpiece of B-grade SF action known only to those in the know! A unique world view created with a “future without a sense of future” and unique action scenes.

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2019.11.29Tetsuya Inagaki

Punch the floor with a gun and escape!

The story is set in Los Angeles in 2027. The main story is that Alex (Olivier Graner), a cyborg investigator whose body is mostly mechanized during a gunfight while on duty, becomes involved in a big conspiracy and ends up fighting a cyborg organization that wants to control the world. .

When Alex appears at the beginning of the movie, wearing sunglasses and a long coat, as Chow Yun-Fat in `` A Better Tomorrow II '' (1987), it is already clear that this is not a noble movie. What's more, he shoots two pistols in a gunfight with beautiful women in body-conscious fashion. After all, it is ``A Better Tomorrow II''. However, the tension in this shootout is unusually high, and in the second half, most scenes are filled with gunfights. What's more, the action is well thought out, so you won't get bored.

One of the most famous scenes is when Alex, cornered by enemies in a hotel, punches a hole through the floor with a machine gun and escapes downstairs. I'm humbled by the director's courage to pull off such manga-like action in a sci-fi work that aims for a philosophical theme, but in the next room, a female cyborg and a villain are shot hundreds of times at close range. The action of shooting bullets at each other and bodies starting to burst into flames takes place at the same time, creating a chaotic sequence that is at its best.

"This gunfight is probably the best action scene I've ever directed. It was everything I wanted to do. We shot countless blanks and used hundreds of firecrackers. I would like to thank the stuntmen, especially the one who had firecrackers tied to his body."

Furthermore, during the filming of this scene, a large number of blank bullets were fired at close range, resulting in an accident in which fragments of shell casings hit the assistant cameraman's throat. Fortunately, it came off the trachea and there was no serious injury.

``That's how intense the filming was,'' Director Pyun said with satisfaction during the audio commentary, but the reality was that the scene was chaotic. Due to the low budget, the shooting period was only eight weeks. For this reason, Pyun poured all of his know-how as a quick-shoot director into the filming location.

Careful reuse of filming locations from ``Terminator 2: Judgment Day''

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