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One of those movies that is so illogical and derivative that it feels like it was written and directed by a predictive algorithm, this is a confused, dull entry in the Tremors franchise that throws in elements of Jurassic Park and The Most Dangerous Game.
The first 40 minutes are spent introducing a nonsensical jumble of bland archetype characters and explaining the graboids to an audience who are 7 movies in and a bunch of conservationists who somehow after 30 years are unaware of this huge zoological discovery, and the next 20 explaining their new genetically engineered abilities to the people who engineered them (and apparently didn't bother to check what the results were). The rest is a collection of people looking scared while things shake, running in slow-motion or getting eaten by CG blurs.
Perhaps its worst sin of all is giving Burt Gummer such a boring, humourless death. He sacrifices himself pointlessly to kill a single Graboid (slightly bigger than the usual ones, apparently, though it's hard to tell with the poor direction), dying when he misjudges his jump and disappears into a CG mouth, all topped off with a funeral scene, maudlin song and montage of some clips from the older, better movies. It's for the best that they kill him off - Gross waddling his way through action scenes is rather embarrassing now - but there are a million better ways to do it than this.
Rating: Very Bad
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