Girls of Geek Movie Review - "Tremors 5: Bloodlines"

Written by Scotty

It is hard to give up on something that you love doing.  I know that I am not the only one that believes this, but sometimes the thing that you love will not pay the bills and that leaves a big problem for most of us.  If you are able to find that perfect job that can do so, mad props to you, but it does not exist for all of us and if we don’t have the free time to do those things that we adore, well, they get shoved into a drawer and sometimes never looked at again.  It is important to make time for these things, no matter how time consuming they are so you do not lose yourself to the system, even though that is what seems to happen more often than not.

Burt Gummer is in the middle of the dessert doing that he loves, shooting his series of survival videos when a stranger arrives unannounced.  Travis Welker is looking to become a part of the Gummer legacy by taking his videos to the next level, but Burt is not too happy about his plans.  But when a truck approaches, Burt is asked to go back to what he does best, monster hunting.  With verified reports of an Ass-Blaster terrorizing a small town in South Africa, Burt is chomping at the bit to get down there and make the kill, but little does he know what he is in for.

Erich Van Wyck seems to be credible when taking the legend to his country, but he has a plan of his own when it comes to capturing the Ass-Blaster rather than killing it.  Burt knows what this entails and with Ass-Blasters on the loose, there are sure to be Graboids as well.  Not being able to use his own equipment since the government has a quarantine ban on them, Burt is handed subpar items to hunt with.  Not being happy about the situation as it stands, a report of a Graboid attack surfaces and Burt finds out that he is not up against what he is used to.  Being larger and leaner, these subterranean killing machines are more powerful and faster than he has ever seen.  When being able to track down one of the Ass-Blasters, Burt also finds out that the game has changed since the hunting and defensive habits of these monster are completely different than he is accustomed to.

Being able to kill everything that is put in his way, Burt does not see the betrayal in front of his face when Van Wyck steals a Graboid egg and cages Burt in his wake.  Thinking that he will be left in dessert to die, Burt is happy to find that Travis has got his back and the two embark on a mission that could get them both killed.  Locating a cave filled with Graboid eggs, the two have to call in the heavy alterity to destroy every last one of them, but little do they know that there is an egg that has found its way into town.  Knowing that the Graboid ‘Queen Bitch’ will do anything to protect her bloodline, Burt, Travis and the villagers have to pull out all of the stops to make sure she will not get to the egg before it hatches and the cycle starts all over again.

Just a great Tremors movie with all of the essentials that you need to be entertained with.  With more CGI than I have seen in the last three movies combined, it is hard to imagine what might have happened if this was available when the first movie came out back in 1990.  I love having Burt being sent to Africa on a Graboid safari since he has always been the one that enjoyed killing, no matter what the rules were.  I could have done without the other storylines in this and just focused on the killing, but everything gets tied up in the end and you find out that Burt has a bloodline of his own that he will need to protect from extinction.  Fun and Graboidy is the best way to describe it, and it does not disappoint, especially if you are looking to be entertained.  Stay Scared.

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