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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2003)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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12.31.03
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I liked this TREMORS much better than the other sequels. Any movie that takes place in the Old West and has monsters already has a few points in favor in my book.At the beginning of the film 17 miners are massacred in the silver mines of Rejection, Nevada by some unknown creature. Practically everyone leaves the small town for other work, leaving behind a core group of settlers, which include a woman who owns the hotel, an American Indian, a surviving miner and a Chinese family who own the drugstore. They all parallel characters that we've seen in the present day. Then, the owner of the silver mine comes to town-Hyram Gummer, who is the great great grandfather of the weapon happy Burt Gummer of the present. This man is the complete opposite of his present day descendent. He's city-bred, rich, likes to take advantage of people and can't even shoot a gun or ride a horse. It turns out that he's also quite broke, as his family invested all their money in this failed mine.He decides to investigate the mine with a few other people-and discovers that they were killed by these four-foot long grub things, which are the graboids in immature form. Half the guys are killed-and the other half realize that if they stay on rocky ground the dirt emerging creatures can't get to them.Gummer, determined to get his mine back, hires a gun-fighter to kill the creatures, only to find out that they've grown another ten feet in length within a week. Now the creatures look like the graboids from the films.But how will the townsfolk, armed with weapons of the 1880's defeat these huge creatures? The answer is pretty interesting. And it is also explained why no one has heard of the creatures in the subsequent years, which lead up to TREMORS 1. TREMORS: THE LEGEND BEGINS is a fun movie.
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Rating: 5.5 out of 10.0 - 2 votes cast total
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