1/10
You thought Tremors 2 through 4 were bad? You thought it couldn't get worse than Tremors 5? Oooohhhhh boyyyy....
31 March 2019
To the people who say 2-4 are all terrible movies, your brains will explode once you see how bad this one is. I mean WOW. What were these guys thinking? I don't even know where to start. First of all, this movie feels NOTHING like a Tremors movie. It feels like an extended episode from the 2003 TV series...a BAD episode, too. It CLEARLY was written by people who don't give a flying crap about the original films or their characters. They decided to make Perfection some abandoned wasteland despite the fact that it was one of the worlds biggest touring destinations in the 3rd movie and TV series. Continuity? Burt Gummer acts nothing like he did in his other films either. He's gun obsessed, not some military drill sergeant! Just because you like guns doesnt mean you're all "ATENN-SHUN! DROP AND GIVE ME 50, SOLDIER" like someone from Full Metal Jacket. Burt was never like that in the first four, so why is he like that now? The film messes up several pieces of lore from the first film too, even worse than the fifth movie. Now the graboids are poisonous and touching their skin will kill you? Since when??? I don't remember Val and Earl getting sick after manhandling the dead graboid that hit the concrete wall in the first movie. Do you? Apparently the filmmakers of this one do. Also, graboids can move perfectly fine in water now? Uh, since when? Water and dirt are NOT the same thing, even an 8-year-old could tell you that. I guess this means graboids have also secretly had gills all this time too? But then there's just other stuff about this movie that just makes you cringe! It takes place in the Nunavut Territory, Canada...and guess what? THEY MISSPELL THE WORD "NUNAVUT" AS "NUNOVOT"!!! WHAT??? Can you not do ANY research??? If Tremors 7 takes place in Texas, will it be spelled as 'TECKSIS' or something? Will Australia be "Oztraylea"? Just wow. Proof that NOBODY looked over this thing. It doesn't even look like they shot in the arctic, instead it looks like any other valley. It could've taken place in Mexico and we would buy it just as much. Another thing is that the comedy is just AWFUL here. The graboid burps at the end, and it's that cartoony stock sound effect burp we've all heard a million times. Seriously! A character also farts at one point too, and it's that cliche stock cartoony fart we've heard a million times. So Tremors, a series that once had sophisticated word play and visual gags, is now resorting to burp and fart jokes you'd see on an episode of Planet Sheen. It's just sad to see that some producer somewhere watched it in the editing room and was like "yes, this is comedic genius! A burping graboid! Perfect!" There's simply nothing good about this movie. Every character in it is bland, forgettable, and unlikable. People literally make the dumbest decisions every chance they get, like people blatantly disobeying logic for no reason at all just so we more deaths. Everyone should know by now that graboids hunt by sound, so why would a scientist choose to run away screaming instead of standing still? It makes you facepalm. As I said earlier, the film feels more like an extended TV show episode. I will never understand why people crap on Tremors 2, 3, and 4 (okay I understand why people crap on 5) when those films look like The Godfather in comparison to this one. They might have been silly, but they were never this blatantly cartoonish and childish. Someone needs to buy the rights back and make a decent Tremors 7 with SS Wilson and Brent Maddock back on board, because those two guys actually care!
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