Review: Tremors 4 – The Legend Begins
- Scott
- Sep 21, 2011
- 2 min read
Seeing this movie even existed was shocking enough, but watching it and then coming to realize it actually made sense was the mind-blowing part. Also, they really are getting a LOT of use out of that style of image for the poster/box cover. Tremors 4 is a prequel to the entire series. As the title suggests, it literally tells the legend of these “dirt dragons” as well as some of the characters from the original 1990 theatrical movie.
Tremors 4 is set in the late 1800’s in a little town know as “Rejection”. Rejection has a thriving silver mine located just out side the city. This is the reason everyone in the town of Rejection is here and comes here. Everyone wants to strike it rich. Problem is, that after a few “mysterious deaths” in the mine, everyone is afraid to actually to to the mine to work. When the work dries up, so does the town. Residents begin to move away, and shops begin to close. Enter Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross). He is the man that owns the rights to the mine, and he aims to get it working again so that he can make himself lots of money. Upon discovering what is actually killing the people in the mine, Hiram has to come up with a new plan.
Hire any wild gunman in the west that can handle a firearm and pay them to kill the “Dirt Dragon”. Sounds like a great plan until the gunman he hires is (predictably) killed by the beasts. Now it’s up to the towns last residents to not only save their livelihoods, but their very lives from these underground killing machines. With a little ingenuity and a HELL of a lot of gunpowder and firearms they are able to accomplish just that. The town is saved, changes it’s name to “Perfection” and the rest is cinematic history… sort of.
This movie is totally superfluous, let’s just get that out of the way. Having said that though, I actually see the point of making some weird western back story here. As I said, it sets up the characters history as well as the monsters. I wouldn’t say this movie is great by any means, but it does serve it’s intended purpose.
It is on the other hand easy to forgive the director (who wrote the original movie, also oddly, M.A.S.K. the cartoon) for just wanting to do more with the “franchise”. I remember seeing the original in the theater and thinking it was great. Now, granted, I have never seen any of the other movies OR the TV series that was apparently made. It doesn’t matter. The movie didn’t and won’t win any awards. It’s pretty obvious even from what little I have seen of the series that this is just a way to serve some fan service. I dunno, maybe this is one last ditch effort for a cash grab based on a name that barely has any meaning or memories behind it. Eh, well.
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