Tremors 5: Bloodlines

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The Tremors monster series of films is all about "fun", and makes no attempt to be anything more. And this one fits right in. The title kind of gives away some of what it isn't supposed to, and it should be retitled. The hero team, as always, is made up of two guys whom most people could never identify with, but still understand the motivations for. The alienation of the audience is not as total as most "hero team" movies go. Like the rest of the series, it's a step up from the "demi-god" heroes. They aren't able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they do have some supernatural powers, though not too many to make them unapproachable. The African trio of secondary heroes makes this a much better film, but they are put too much into the back burner. It would have been better if they were the front burner, much better.

Hired to come out to South Africa, a survivalist and his protégée finds their claims of being overrun by a breed of giant, vicious worms similar to ones he has dealt with in the past are true and sets out to stop them from overtaking the area. Overall this one here offers quite an enjoyable and exciting rebirth of the series. What really tends to give this one a lot of enjoyment is the fact that there's such an exciting and coherent tone with the rest of the franchise despite this one again going for pretty much the same route as its predecessors did. Containing the same kind of goofy humor and one-liners present throughout the other films here, coming from a rather nice new source in the family relationship that's uncovered here which manages to come off as rather fun in its own way but certainly allows the rest of the film's bumbling nature and escalation of situations out of their control to be perfectly in keeping with franchise expectations and furthering the sense of unity here by really making it feel part of that universe overall. This nicely extends into the action here which is where the film really gets quite good as the numerous confrontations throughout here are pretty exciting, fun and action-packed offering plenty of enjoyable features. From the opening attack out in the bushlands where the victim falls into the underground tunnel and discovered topside, the creatures' first attack on the campsite as the night-vision goggles are useless to prevent it from attacking the guides inside, the bridge ambush against the flying form and finally the non-stop finale where they locate the nests and destroy it, the big assault at the second sanctuary that destroys the whole facility and the big action-packed finale where they finally get the creatures for good, this whole section of the film is highly enjoyable and manages to get some highly exciting moments. Even with all this action, there's some great fun in the way they manage to give the creatures a little bit more personality, not just simply turning this into a hunting party using their previous knowledge without much difficulty in executing their plans but managing some nice surprises along the way. Not only here with the notion of why the creatures are attacking but also with the use of yet another strong evolutionary adaptation giving to them in here that allows for some additional suspense in the finale where that comes into great play here when it makes the most sense to utilize it. Coupled with some fun splattery messes for the creatures' deaths as well as great design-work on the creatures who truly look impressive with more of a budget to realize them in the best they've ever looked, there's a lot to like here. The only real exposed flaw to be found here is the fact that this one tends to run through several plot-threads simply to eat up time here that go nowhere simply to eat up time as there's not a whole lot of length to the worm attacks, meaning the film features such useless parts as the corrupt businessman who wants to capture them despite clearly seeing how dangerous they are, the useless romantic triangle that was simply doomed from the start and the continued insistence on the language barrier between them when there's clearly nothing going on other than keeping the weaponry out of his hands needlessly which really gets quite old. Beyond that, this one turned out rather fun and enjoyable. Rated PG-13: Violence, Language, mild ceremonial tribal drug use and children-in-jeopardy.

I enjoyed the first "Tremors" movie a lot, and to some degree or another I enjoyed the next three entries (released straight to video) in the series. However, with "Tremors 5", it seems that Universal Pictures has gone to the well once too often. The move to South Africa does add a little freshness to the background, but film buffs will know that the real reason this entry moved to South Africa is that it's a lot cheaper to make movies there. Indeed, there are some parts of the movie that look like they were very cheaply (and quickly) filmed. This sloppiness also extends to the script - there are some sections that feel they were more or less made up right on the spot, and there are a number of plot turns that you'll be able to predict before they actually happen. The special effects and the attack scenes aren't that bad for a direct to video movie, but it's the material surrounding them that's weak. I feel I should mention that the movie is nowhere as bad as it could have been, but all the same it's a disappointment for fans of the franchise.

Well worth watching this brings back some of the thrills from the first 2 movies together with retaining that witty humorous dialogs, and camera techniques, action sequences, campy fun and the "A grade 90's comedy-creature fest film with 50's B-movie panache" which made the original movie so successful. I did watch the first one when I was a kid now I am way out of childhood and past university. Gave this a watch and its well worth the time.The pacing and action improve considerably as the film goes on, maintaining a tongue-in-cheek approach while the situation becomes more dire. As with all the tremors movie the camera work is superbly done. And this latest installment keeps more in touch with current trends in camera techniques yet retaining the basics of the older 90s movies. The Tremors franchise has a few clever twists but ultimately can't decide what it wants to be - flat-out funny, which it's not, or a scare- fest. Tremors 5 continues that lineage superbly..

Tremors 5: Bloodlines (English) 6.5/10 Genre: Adventure/Action Director: Don Michael Paul Cast: Michael Gross, Jamie Kennedy, Natalie Becker Year: 2015 This movie certainly is a victim of bad marketing and promotion and will undoubtedly be one of the most underrated films of 2015 and honestly I never knew that there will be a fifth coming out from the Tremors franchise. This also happens to be the second film this year after Jurassic World which took me back to my childhood when I used to love these monster movies but surprisingly I felt this was better than Jurassic World considering the fact that it was probably made on one tenth of Jurassic World's budget, no theatrical release and above all I had no expectation from this film and watched it just for fun, turns out it's more than just fun. The special effects and creature effects were as good as any high budget film and since this one is just a direct-to-DVD B-grade film it somehow was the best as compared to other films made on low budget. The story this time moves to South Africa where Burt Gummer is back hunting down Graboids with the help of his unknown Son. Don Michael Paul who has directed quite a few B-grade films probably did his best job as director in regards to B-grade films. Acting was not bad if not brilliant which is pretty understandable for a film like this with Michael Gross reprising his role as Gummer for the fifth time and the only actor to appear in all the Tremors films along with Jamie Kennedy performing supporting duties as his son. The action, stunt and creature effects were pretty cool and the reason why I loved it so much. If you are fan of the Tremors franchise then you cannot afford to miss this one which might surprise you as well.

Tremors 4 wasn't a great movie, but it had some excitement in it. The same cannot be said for Tremors 5, which has remarkably little in the way of thrills and suspense. There's also not much in the way of story or character. This time around it's basically just the Burt Gummer show, with other characters ranging from bland to irksome. And because the story soon separates into two separate threads that connect poorly, there is no real sense of momentum. And with no character development, you don't have much reason to care if these people live or die. There are a bunch of logic issues as well, and all sorts of clichés, but I don't need to name everything wrong with this movie. The point is, nothing is done very well. At the same time, it is perfectly watchable and keeps moving. So there's that. But if this is the best they can do, it's probably time to shut this thing down.

I really wanted to like it, but it was an enterprise doomed to failure. Not only the graboids have a complicated life cycle that involves a flying version that uses igneous farts to propel themselves, but the movie is now located in South Africa and filled with clichés of how Americans see the place. The monsters were cool enough, but the tension was gone, as well as the classic Tremors feel, where an isolated community gets together to defeat unbeatable carnivore beasts. Instead we have big guns easily killing big dumb animals. It's not a totally bad film for the Tremors "series", but certainly it is a disgrace to the original film. Bottom line: watching it for the melancholy and the fun. Had neither.