Our plot follows on (just about) from the first movie. A voiceover tells us that the cyborgs waged a long and brutal war against humanity after watching The Terminator too many times, and while our hero from the first film, Alex, attempted to stop it he was ultimately unsuccessful and the humans were enslaved. HOWEVER humanity is not dead, and 73 years later scientists genetically engineer a new breed of super human (quite how they do this while all being enslaved I’ll never know) and a woman volunteers to give birth to and mother this Über Baby. A girl is born and she is named Alex, after the first movie’s hero. The cyborgs catch on to this however (took them 73 years though) and set out in pursuit of the ‘DNA Human’ as the little CyborgCam shots say with those Robocop-esque displays. Alex is but a baby at this time, and her mother carries her to safety, fending off two female cyborg assassins (complete with sunglasses and platinum blonde wigs), killing them surprisingly easily with a gunshot each (quite how they won the war while being so delicate I don’t know). Just as more cyborgs close in, mummy zaps herself and Alex back in time with the help of a time machine the humans stole from the cyborgs (quite how they won the war when they can lose LARGE TIME TRAVELLING CUBES so easily is beyond me). Alex and mother emerge in war-torn South Africa in 1980, and Alex is soon alone as her mum is shot dead by rebels, but Alex herself saved by a desert tribe.

We scoot on 20 years, where Alex (yes, they all know to call her Alex, no idea why or how) has grown into an extremely muscular (though kinda cute) young lady. In some utterly pointless scenes, she proves herself as a tribe warrior by killing a boar, and then kicking the ass of another tribesman who didn’t like her. One of her tribe pals offers to show her where she came from, and takes her into the forbidden area and shows her the time machine she arrived in 20 years previous. She digs around inside and finds a special knife with a laser sight which goes all cheaplasereffect-ish and can be thrown really accurately, whoop dee doo.

Alex’s life is about to change however, as after 20 years the cyborgs have finally pinpointed Alex’s position and send presumably their most evil cyborg to get her – Nebula. Alex and her chum return to their village to find Nebula has wiped everybody out, and her friend is killed soon after. This seems to compound the stupidity of these cyborgs, that not only does it take them TWENTY YEARS to find Alex, they then send a killer cyborg back to kill her once she’s fully grown, when they could have just gone back to when she was still a baby and had an easy kill, and still have time to get some souvenirs! Shame on humanity for losing to these cretins! Alex soon comes along two women who have been captured by local militants, one of which offers her a flight out of there in her plane if she helps them. Alex obliges and helps them escape, but her life is made more difficult by having to protect them and herself from both local militants AND the killer cyborg Nebula.

I tried really hard to make it sounds simple, but that still ended up sounding over-complicated to me. That is the prime failing of Albert Pyun’s films, he seems intent on adding these little subplots. He had to add Alex ‘proving herself’ to her tribe, then he brings in the women Alex saves from capture (who have their own little dubious history, just to confuse things) it just makes things drag, and this movie does run the risk of becoming boring on a few occasions, not helped by the total lack of urgency and the total lack of believability that Alex might not survive, she just cruises through the whole thing without breaking a sweat. Nebula himself is also a little on the feeble side, and just crap. In what I can only guess was an attempt to replicate some of the look from the Predator movies, Nebula is forever surrounded by a distortion very much like the one you see when the Predator was invisible. The twist on it this time though is that Nebula isn’t invisible, and just has this special effect around him for most of the movie for no reason (though I suspect maybe they were trying to hide what a crappy cyborg outfit they were using, but that’s just me being mean).

Performance-wise, Sue Price is functional (and like I said, actually kinda cute) as the muscle-bound Alex, though she doesn’t look terribly convincing in some of the action sequences. Everybody else is there to get shot, stabbed or blown up and don’t really add anything else to the proceedings. Nebula himself, as mentioned above, is thoroughly unimpressive and doesn’t show much imagination except for one nice scene where he punches his fist into a guy and drains his blood and guts out through his cyber-elbow until he’s a dried up corpse, wish I could do that. Other than this gooey fun he just fires laser blasts around extremely inaccurately, to the point where it looks like the pyrotechnic people for the movie just placed blasts wherever the hell they pleased and left the poor sap doing the visual effects to fill in the gaps. There are some good action sequences however, though not enough of them, and the choice of location provides a stark and effective backdrop, though it did seem to limit just how the movie could be filmed, seeing as there was not much in the way of variation.

This is quite good for one of Albert Pyun’s movies, it has enough stupid plot holes for you to have fun picking at, but also delivers some entertaining action. However like I said there just aren’t enough of these more exciting scenes, too much of the film is spent adding utterly pointless sub-plots, which maybe were meant to add depth to the film but just bog it down. All the same, some mindless fun if you can stomach Pyun’s very quirky (boring) style. Two more sequels were filmed at the same time as this, Nemesis 3 is full of flashbacks to this one, and Nemesis 4 clocks in at a little over an hour – stick with the best of a bad series and watch this one, though even then its still pretty bloody boring.