Tremors 5: Bloodlines
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2016 1:57 pm
Synopsis:
Michael Gross and Jamie Kennedy need to make rent.
Review:
Yeah, this is the FIFTH one. Kevin Bacon checked out after the original, Fred Ward left after the second. Only Michael Gross has been brave/unemployed enough to stick around for all five, including the preceding prequel film. Oh by the way, the worm things have a lifecycle sort of germane to this review. If you haven't seen the 2-4, I'll neglect the details, but suffice it to say, big-ass, spikey worms aren't the only form they can show up in.
Where to begin? Michael makes his living killing the worm things, grabboids, and making survivalist videos. By the way, they're entirely CG with virtually no puppetry this time around. His new cameraman is Jamie Kennedy. Abruptly, some dude with a bad South African accent informs him that grabboids at a particular phase of their lifecycle have been encountered halfway across the world. They seem to be a different subspecies than the North American ones, they're generally meaner and bigger in every respect. Michael and Jamie are hired to take one alive if possible and exterminate them if need be.
As far as fifth films in a franchise go, you could do much worse. Jamie walks the line between "annoying" and "comedic" pretty well. Michael Gross is doing his best to play what I can only describe as a mix of Michael Biehn (as he looks today) and Dale Gribble.
Verdict:
The movies have always been brainless action/comedy. This is at least solid B-movie grade, which is more than I can say for the previous two entries.
Michael Gross and Jamie Kennedy need to make rent.
Review:
Yeah, this is the FIFTH one. Kevin Bacon checked out after the original, Fred Ward left after the second. Only Michael Gross has been brave/unemployed enough to stick around for all five, including the preceding prequel film. Oh by the way, the worm things have a lifecycle sort of germane to this review. If you haven't seen the 2-4, I'll neglect the details, but suffice it to say, big-ass, spikey worms aren't the only form they can show up in.
Where to begin? Michael makes his living killing the worm things, grabboids, and making survivalist videos. By the way, they're entirely CG with virtually no puppetry this time around. His new cameraman is Jamie Kennedy. Abruptly, some dude with a bad South African accent informs him that grabboids at a particular phase of their lifecycle have been encountered halfway across the world. They seem to be a different subspecies than the North American ones, they're generally meaner and bigger in every respect. Michael and Jamie are hired to take one alive if possible and exterminate them if need be.
As far as fifth films in a franchise go, you could do much worse. Jamie walks the line between "annoying" and "comedic" pretty well. Michael Gross is doing his best to play what I can only describe as a mix of Michael Biehn (as he looks today) and Dale Gribble.
Verdict:
The movies have always been brainless action/comedy. This is at least solid B-movie grade, which is more than I can say for the previous two entries.