Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) (V)

Director:

S.S. Wilson

Writers (WGA):

S.S. Wilson (characters) &
Brent Maddock (characters) ...

Release Date:

2 January 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Western

Tagline:

A Revolution Has Begun...

Plot:

A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about the founders of Rejection Valley and how they defended it against the dirt dragons AKA graboids.

Plot Keywords:

Graboids | Monster | Prequel | Desert | Bicycle

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Michael Gross	...	Hiram Gummer
Sara Botsford	...	Christine Lord
Billy Drago	...	Black Hand Kelly
Brent Roam	...	Juan Pedilla
August Schellenberg	...	Tecopa
J.E. Freeman	...	Old Fred
Ming Lo	...	Pyong Lien Chang
Lydia Look	...	Lu Wan Chang
Sam Ly	...	Fu Yien Chang
Neil Kopit	...	Victor (as Neal Kopit)
Sean Moran	...	Western Union Clerk
Matthew Seth Wilson	...	Brick Walters
John Dixon	...	Big Horse Johnson
Dan Lemieux	...	Stony Walters
Don Ruffin	...	Soggy

Also Known As:

Tremors 4 (USA) (working title)
Tremors: Original Showdown (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for creature violence and gore.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | South Korea:All | Netherlands:12 | Finland:K-15 | Australia:M | USA:PG-13 | Germany:16 | UK:12 | Canada:PG (Ontario/Canadian video rating) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Singapore:PG

Company:

Stampede Entertainment

Trivia:

The idea of a character running up a telephone pole has been written in and written out several times, and finally you get to see Miguel pull the stunt off in this Tremors film.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The paintbrush the man uses to paint the F in PERFECTION obviously doesn't have any real paint on it, its tip is just colored white.

Quotes:

Hiram Gummer: I feel I've not been privy to critical, most needful information.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in You're on the Set of 'Tremors 4: The Legend Begins' (2004) (V)

Weakest of the movies but still fun

This likable forth entry in the series doesn't pack quite the punch of its predecessors but is still entertaining. Taking the basic premise back to the wild west was a clever touch, Michael Gross is quite good playing a character diametrically opposed to the one he played in the other movies and Bill Drago is good (as always) playing a super-cool gunfighter. Still, the first hour feels a bit sluggish at times, closer in spirit to the amusing but not especially exciting Tremors television series than the movies. Around the middle is a genuinely thrilling sequence and the ending is also reasonably exciting. Not as white-knuckle intense as anything from the other movies but it did cause me to cry out with the occasional "whoah!" I would call this worth watching if you're into the series or just want to see a pretty well done monster movie.

But after four movies the series may be getting tired. My advice: time to turn it into a videogame.