zoran_kamen First of all I swear I do not belong to team that made this excellent movie. Yes I gave it score 10/10. Why ? In my life I have watched a lots of movies, cause I really enjoy to watch a good movie, its one of my favorite forms of entertainment ! Back to movie; this movie from the very first minutes in the silver mine had all my attention 100% until the very end! Quality of picture is amazingly high, scenery most appropriate and the way the camera operates really makes it all very alive. While I really enjoyed original Tremors with Kevin BAcon, this is first movie in franchise that in my humble opinion lacks absolutely nothing comparing it with the original ! I will be very sincere and honest as possible here without any artificial over exaggeration ! I have enjoyed movie immensely as said already from the beginning till the very last second of it. All scenes are very authentic, plot is very very nice and even dramatic, there is even some factor of unpredictability, specially in character of Hiram Gummer--that would be grandpa of legendary Burt Gummer. His acting in this on surpasses clearly all his previous roles in great way. I would say even that his acting is very close to perfect in this movie. All together ; plot, scenes, acting, special effects --is very well done, even fantastic for the given budget ! Its also obvious that MAster --the great Greg NIcotero (The Walkin Dead) was part of team,(already in TV -series which was also on top quality level --acting, effects , really really good and its amazing that only one season was made !!!) WHile I enjoy previous 2 sequels, this one is entirely on different level, movie simply sucked my whole attention, scenes was really realistically made and actors gave all they could--no holding back. Right from the first till very last cast acted really great, and Michale Gross even supremely. How this movie did not made it to the theaters I will never understand, its a cult movie for god sake, it deserves all praises possible. Until now it have become clear obviously that I enjoyed this movie even more than the first one! OK it have Bacon , but Gross have in this one surpassed BAcon in my humble opinion. This WAS top acting performance, totally convincable ! All movie holds you in some secret energy and I really felt energy in this movie, comparing this, previous 2 are plastic, shallow and dead (altough I loved them both) Yes even first one is shallow comparing to this one, and I make a stand here ! For example , finale of first Tremors was really nothing special --right in middle that movie shines ! But this one TRemors 4 --is slow build up, slow build up --one dramatic event full of powerful emotions and feelings after another and when you think even more its not possible there comes grand finale which is really like some kind of orgasm, very very well and dramatically made --and there is very few directors and movies that made good end. THis is one of them. Of course it hurts me to see unjust really too low ratings of this amazing and beautiful movie, it is really really very very much underrated ! So maybe stay open minded and see this movie without head filled with prejudices that came from others opinion or from ones own limited perception..so please Im begging you watch and listen this movie with open eyes, heart and mind and with full attention, if you are not dead rock I guarantee you, that you will not be disappointed, and then watch it again and again, and slowly you will find out that this movie is a Masterpiece !!!

Spikeopath The fourth film in the Tremors film franchise, but actually a prequel, is surprisingly a whole bunch of fun. That is on proviso you have any sort of affinity to Westerns. Plot whisks us to the Wild West and finds the residents of Rejection Valley in a battle against the creatures that would become known as Graboids. The link to the future Tremors movies is once again Michael Gross, here playing Hiram Gummer. Gummer is a weasel business man type who is forced to confront his moral compass and set it for future generations of Gummer's.Cult hero Billy Drago is on hand to up the fun quota as Black Hand Kelly, a hired gunman with a laid back attitude and a draw as quick as the best of them. For period flavours it's well stocked by director S.S. Wilson, for Western fans the clichés are as enjoyable as the costuming and town dressage. Problems here for Graboid fans is that there is a very long wait for things to really kick off into creature feature territory, and then it's evident that the effects work is not top line stuff. This goes some way to explaining the film's mediocre ratings on internet movie sites.In spite of its straight to video status and modest production budget, "The Legend Begins" does look fantastic on photography terms, the colour lenses spot on for the Wild West setting and the Bronson landscapes and cave systems look terrific, cinematographer Virgil L. Harper deserves a right good pat on the back. cast performances are a mixed bunch, but there is nobody bad here, all members, led by Gross, are fully committed to making the material work. Things invariably get pacey for the big finale, which is in keeping with the series, although all things considered it's not a barnstormer of chaotic creature feature conventions.Loads to like for Western fans with a bent for some "B" movie schlock, hardcore Tremors fans, though, are sure to be frustrated. 6.5/10

AaronCapenBanner Michael Gross is back, not as Burt Gummer, but instead his ancestor Hiram Gummer, who owns a silver mine in rejection Nevada, but leaves his home in Philadelphia when the mine is closed due to unexplained deaths, which are rumored to be caused by monsters...Set 100 years before the events of Part I,film cleverly builds the back story of this town(later renamed Perfection) and the first reported encounter with the creatures later named "graboids". Set in the west, and featuring many of the familiar elements of the genre, film isn't bad at all, but still falls flat, carried mostly by the appeal of Michael Gross, who has interesting character development regarding his love of guns... Last in the series, so far!

Steve Pulaski The relationship Tremors 4: The Legend Begins and I have has long been a strange one, stranger than the original Tremors film going from a modestly successful, contemporary B-movie into a series that spanned three decades, a TV show, and an online video game. Tremors 4: The Legend Begins was never the sequel I craved to watch as a young child, totally invested in the universe of Perfection, Nevada and the biology of the Graboid. I always craved the first two films and watched the third film on special occasions, yet I was never drawn to the idea of a prequel to the franchise set all the way back in the 1880's. One faithful day when I was about nine, I settled into watch the film and shut it off after about forty minutes; the action wasn't there, the suspense was missing, the faithful characters I grew attached to over the course of the years weren't even a twinkle in the eyes of the characters, and, bottom line, the atmosphere felt all wrong. I put the film away and decided I'd never watch it again.About six years later, I tried once again, made it to the end credits, and generally liked what I had seen; it was a film I found pleasant enough, somewhat entertaining, but again, never really wanted to see again nor craved every year like the previous three films. Watching it for the third time, making it to the end credits of the second time, I'm caught between my downright hatred from my first "viewing" and the acceptance of my second to reach a point of indifference. Tremors 4 is a mediocre addition to a franchise that otherwise boldly worked with the elements of suspense and constructing biology of obscure, constantly developing creatures and an assembly of quirky but, for the most part, instantly lovable characters.Tremors 4 lacks that smoothness that made the first three films so investing, and doesn't really know how to assemble or make use of its time period without it seeming like a costume party. The film follows the town of Perfection, Nevada in 1889, when it is known as Rejection, Nevada. The town is a largely desolate, unremarkable town that is financially elevated by the silver mine, which soon becomes a dangerous location when numerous miners are reported dead or killed on the job in a mysterious fashion. To investigate, the mine's owner Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross), great-grandfather of the Tremors' franchise's Burt Gummer, a cold and mannered businessman concerned about his bottom dollar above all, arrives in Rejection.Hiram immediately gets acquainted to the townsfolk, to whom he is incredibly standoffish, before getting a look at the "dirt dragons" themselves. Before transforming into the typical subterranean beast we know them as, the worms are smaller, more land-oriented creatures, about the length of a skateboard, with spikes along their sides and a smaller head that resembles their Graboid successor. Hiram, Juan (Brent Roam), a mineworker, and Pyong Lien Chang (Ming Lo), current owner and operator of Chang's General Store, realize they're ill-equipped to combat the violent beasts, they enlist in the help of a skilled sharpshooter. The sharpshooter presents himself to Rejection as "Black Hand Kelly" (Billy Drago), an ominous figure cloaked in black and blessed with a quick trigger finger.Tremors 3: Back to Perfection was the point in the franchise when one could really see that the budgets for the films had become increasingly minimized and the fate of the series headed in the direction of Sci- Fi Network TV movies. Tremors 4 further reduces the budget to a real pitiful muddle of poorly conceived CGI and limited human interaction with the creatures. The combat and suspense elements included in the preceding films are notably missing from this one, sacrificed in favor of listless conversation between the characters that doesn't eloquently build character nor create any additional interest in the situation.Finally, there's the overall lack of spirit from the original three films. Those were movies that built off of one another, adding characters related to one another, providing epilogues to those who weren't in future installments, and linked together like an elaborate food chain. Tremors 4, aside from the connection to Burt Gummer and Walter Chang's market, largely feels divorced from the series all together, and although S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, and Nancy Roberts are all still a part of this film, a lot of the zest and the attributes that made the preceding films so watchable and easily lovable feels so subtracted that this might as well be a prequel made by total strangers of the series.Starring: Michael Gross, Brent Roam, Billy Drago, Sarah Botsford, and Ming Lo. Directed by: S.S. Wilson.