BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

b_kite I remember back in the day when "Tremors 4" played on Sci Fi Channel all the time and since I've always been a big fan of westerns a prequel traveling back to the old west was really up my ally. Michael Gross returns yet again to play Burt's ancestor Hiram Gummer who now has to protect the town of Perfection then "Rejection" from the invading worms in 1889. I would say its a pretty good guilty pleasure movie. It's not as good as the first two of course but I think I enjoyed it better then part 3. S.S. Wilson returns to direct and the film goes back to use of practical effects only using CGI when its needed. The cast is OK even tho some of them seem kinda bland, Billy Drago shows up for about 15 minutes only to get eaten and while I like him he isn't the greatest here. It's defiantly the most mediocre cast of the series, so far anyways next I'm gonna tackle the two revival sequels so we'll see how they fare.

Ben Davis Well it is much better than the last two films that's for sure. Doesn't make it good unfortunately. It fixes the acting and attempts at comedy problems thankfully, but is bogged down by severe boredom. Nothing really happens and the entire time I was watching it, I had to struggle to stay awake. I honestly can't remember a thing about it. It was so uninteresting that the whole movie became a blur. All I can remember is an old man getting eaten by the grabbers. Oh yeah, if this a prequel, then how did know one in the first know about these? I think that would have made a pretty good story to pass down from generation to generation don't you think? Anyway, I'd much rather watch this over the previous two films and it fixed some of the problems I had, so I don't hate it too much.

utgard14 Fourth and hopefully final Tremors movie is a prequel set in the Old West. Michael Gross returns, playing the great-grandfather of the character he played in the previous three movies. The joke is that gung-ho survivalist Burt Gummer's ancestor was a dandy. It's amusing for a moment but when you realize that's the only bullet the movie has in its gun, you lose interest. This is a very cheap and bland movie. Not at all in the league of the original Tremors or even the last two sequels. It reeks of being a desperate attempt to wring more out of the franchise than was necessary. I can't hate them for trying. Anyway, it's not very good and I'm sure only die-hard fans will find value in it. I didn't laugh once and there are long stretches with no action, so it's pretty dull.

Paul Andrews Tremors 4: The Legend Begins is set during 1889 in Nevada where the residents of a small town named Rejection rely on a nearby silver mine for their income, however things are not well at the silver mine as several miners have been mysteriously killed there & no-one will now go anywhere near it. The mines owner Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross) travels from Philidelphia to see things for himself, he finds an almost deserted town with worried locals & a mine that is crawling with vicious worm like creatures. Hiram sends for a gunfighter & 'Black Hand' Kelly (Billy Drago) turns up, he agrees to kill the creatures but when they find the creatures they have mutated into huge worms that can eat a person in one go. As the giant worms move closer to Rejection the residents decide to stay & fight them...Executive produced & directed by S.S. Wilson this apparently had the working title of Tremors: Original Showdown & was the third sequel to the excellent 90's monster film Tremors (1990) which is generally considered a bit of a classic & while Tremors 4: The Legend Begins is hardly any sort of classic it makes for a passable period monster film that passes 90 odd minutes harmlessly enough. The script here does the by now standard plot device of introducing yet another new creature, this time little baby Graboids, but does a Back to the Future Part III (1990) & transports the main action back to the Wild West of the late nineteenth century & basically has lots of parallels with the previous modern day set Tremors films as the very beginnings of Perfection, the shop that ends up being run by a Chinese family named the Chang's & Burt Gummer's ancestor & how his family came to live in perfection along with various in-jokes & other references that foreshadow events & character's to come. Of course there's the usual Graboid action too which feels just like the other films with little new, I quite liked the period setting & the story was decent while when Billy Drago turns up & he & Hiram play off against each other is also fun & it moves along at a reasonable pace even if the first half can drag a bit at times although overall I thought this was a definite improvement over the previous sequel Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001).The idea of the mine setting could have been rather cool as the Graboids could have attacked from all sides, beneath, the sides & above but this potential isn't realised out of the opening sequence unfortunately. The previous two Tremors sequels introduced different creatures but neither the Shriekers or the ridiculous awful Ass Blasters are seen here. The special effects & CGI work is alright but nothing special & there's a bit more gore than expected with a decapitated head & a headless torso seen. The period production design is nice enough but it does feel like stock costumes & props with little to distinguish this although there's a ridiculously huge gun at the end the recoil of which would surely have broken your arm if you ever tried to fire it.The IMDb reckons this had a budget of about $5,000,000 & if that's true than that's a decent budget, it looks nice enough & is well made but nothing really stands out. The acting is fine, Michael Gross returns again as he becomes the only actor to appear in all four Tremors film while the always watchable Billy Drago is great although he is given too little screen time.Tremors 4: The Legend Begins is a pretty good third sequel to a somewhat tired franchise, there's nothing especially wrong with this but it's adequate & average at best. The IMDb lists Tremors V: The Thunder from Down Under (2010) as in production.