Point and counterpoint, This movie is a deserved send-off for the historic TNG cast. But everyone anticipating this film, could feel the potential, and also, could list every niche they spat out with distaste. Adding a new director, changing horses in midstream to say in another way, would reach the top of the list, and would most likely be the reason for its flop status.
A few minor/major(depending on the fan) points to bring up here. Perhaps just subjective distaste, or else, a more universal blast: The complete transition to CGI. This, ultimately, will ruin the agelessness of the film. A model will always look like a model, and as of yet, a pixel will always look like a pixel. Then the tasteless fabrications on the star trek universe; Killing data to make room for (the other)Soong type android, and the retched backstory on the romulans. I wonder if Roddenberry would have approved?
Enough with the negative, I rated this film as satisfactory, so there must be some good. The predator like warship, the cameo's are numerous (also rumur that in the party, sits ensign ro). Just a few of the more notable ones, Whoopie, Will Wheaton, Micheal Dorn(from DS9). Then avid fans get some of their closers, with Rikers promotion/marriage to counselor troi, Doctor Crushers reassignment, and the 'Death' of the most unique character, Data.
The action is intense and the music is wonderful, it just falls short of the direction of the last two (Jonathan Frakes dir). It is sad enough to watch your favorite characters say goodbye, but even more when you think to yourself that there will not be another film with this cast.

I liked the really dark horrible look of some of this but I was not entertained by the story or anything. It was one of the worst Star Trek movies. Too bad. Everyone seemed tired of it.

"Star Trek - Nemesis" was a huge failure at the box office, for reasons that no one really can explain. Obviously, people have seen so much Star Trek that they do not care anymore about a bit more or less of it. But, make no mistake, this does not mean that Nemesis necessarily was a bad movie!
In fact, Nemesis was a great movie. It had very tough moral implications by posing the question how much of you is really determined by your genetic material or heritage and how much you have to decide yourself. This was embedded in a dark and challenging plot, asking just that question concerning Picard and his clone, Shinzon, and concerning Data and his twin, B4. It also saw the crew going their seperate ways and leaving the Enterprise-family, pursuing their own careers and lives. The movie was filled with a suspenseful, political plot and taken to its climax by a great, long breath-taking space battle and the subsequent self-sacrifice of Data, reaching his goal of being human at that very moment.
Of course, Nemesis also had its flaws. Many secondary characters had very small roles and really not much but the usual to do, but after all this is a motion picture and not a super-sized TV-episode designed to develop each and every character. With Stuart Baird a non-Trek director was chosen, and that different attitude could be felt. At times, Nemesis veered off too much from the usual Trek-spirit into Sci-Fi action. Also, the writer John Logan crafted a sometimes slightly contsructed story conveniently ignoring some well established facts (Wesley Crusher, Data's emotion chip, B4). But in the end, this was partly in response to the growing criticism of Star Trek and a try to give it some new energy, which succeeded in some parts, but failed in others. Still, Nemesis was a great movie and a great addition to it's three predecessors. After all, you can't do everything in every movie, so this gravitated a bit into the action-thriller genre, but why shouldn't it? It is fine in so far as "First Contact" was a time-travel horror-adventure and "Insurrection" a Sci-Fi action-comedy, each and every one of them a fantastic movie, adding to the bigger picture of "Next Genration"-movies.
The box office results made sure that this really was the final journey of the "Next Generation"-crew, but I really do not accept the reason stated for that by most of the media and also many "fans". Nothing would have probably changed if the film was any different, because you first have to go and see it to call it bad, and if you didn'f see it in the first place, you probably would not have however good it was.
In the end, it was a fitting end for the crew and made a very modern, developed impression. Whether it will have been the last of the Star Trek-movies remains to be seen, but even if that is the case, the Star Trek movies will have gone out with a bang, not a whimper!

I love almost anything to do with Star Trek but this movie didn't leave the viewer with the feeling that ST:TNG deserves. Many have stated that this will be the last TNG film, I sure hope not. There are just way to many loose ends? Whatever will happen to B4? Riker and Troi on the Titan? Many questions need to be answered. I believe that they still need to make another movie....so atleast, the cast can get a conscious farewell (like Star Trek VI)

I thought the action in Star Trek Nemesis was awesome, and I'm not really sure what ILM has to do with anything but I thought the digital stuff was good. As for the story, it resembled ST2 too much, Data dying like Spock. Come Up with something orginal. And also, you don't realease a Star Trek movie in December around Harry Potter and James Bond and expect it to do well. That's why the marketing failed. I thought it was an ok movie, but it didn't resolve as well as it could. I wanted to see Riker's ship and see where everyone went. The characters were cheated in my opinion unlease Paramount has some "miracle" sequel up its sleave which I'm assuming not by the cancellation of Enterprise