The first part of the franchise that showed some drawdown. Not very big, but it's there. Another variety of Graboids turned out to be unconvincing and some tortured. I mean, yes, the monsters here have always been pretty ridiculous, but they had their own style, their own design, and here for the first time they retreated from it to make some underground-air African dinosaur, which is not another stage in their life cycle, but a different species, or the hell knows it, than at all. In addition, this is the case when the authors send the characters to travel somewhere to continue the series, because their original setting has outlived itself.
Still, the movie is still not bad. This franchise has always held well on acting, charisma, character interaction, situational humor, the balance of dorky and heroic - and all this is here.
Therefore, I do not understand the number of crushing ratings in various sources, the overall rating of 4.7 points is unfair. This is a normal monster fighting movie, straight from the 90s, only shot in 2015. No part was a blockbuster: always better than thrash, but worse than something serious, and that was always their thing. Pleasant heroes, desert, beautifully staged scenes, excellent camera work. The general plot is banal, but at the same time there are many scenes, details that surprise. It's worth watching for.
Unfortunately, there are real shortcomings. Three of them:
- I already told you about the strange monster. But the classic Graboids were shown to us in the first 2 minutes of the film as a presentation. They were never mentioned again.
- There's practically no humor. For some reason, the film was made serious, and this is what he does not need. It's not Predator. The previous parts won because of their frivolity.
- The cage scene in the middle of the movie. Slutty, nasty, stupid and unnecessary.