NEMESIS 2

NEMESIS 2. Albert Pyun, dir. 1995. Imperial Home Video, 1995.

Sequel to NEMESIS (q.v. above), apparently a rip-off of THE TERMINATOR and TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (cited below). The cyborgs from NEMESIS have won their war against the humans, and "The remaining humans are slaves to the cyborgs. In 2077, human scientists succeed in genetically engineering a super-human female who is the last hope of humanity." The new baby is named Alex. "To protect . . . Alex, her mother takes her back to the year 1980 and leaves her in the East African desert in the care of a tribe of natives" to the area. About the year 2000, with Alex 20, a "bounty hunter cyborg comes back in time after her." Summarized by M. Lloyd, "The Loneliness of Cyborgs," Part 2, our source for this entry, and whom we quote. (ML finds Alex one of the very few "truly tough female heroes out there," getting us to wonder if Alex is named after Joanna Russ's Alyx.) Video release rev. John Thonen, Cinefantastique 27.7 (March 1996): 60.