Takashi-3

This, the direct-to-video death rattle of the Tremors series, features sixty inspired seconds (sawblade: you'll know it when you see it) and more tedium and filler than you can shake a stick at. Tremors 4 was obviously shot on a cripplingly low budget. That means they only had enough special effects mojo for three or four minutes of precious worm-on-human violence, tops. The lackluster, cliche-spouting cast and hackneyed writing ensure that the remaining hour and a half of the Tremors 4 experience feels at least fifteen thousand years long. Only hardcore Tremors fans will be able to sit through, much less enjoy this film. If you aren't among them- don't bother.

This is the first good movie that I've seen in a long time (from Hollywood). What stands out about A.I. is the abandonment of irony and self-mockery and the attempt to grapple with one of life's huge questions- what does it mean to be (or become) human? - in a format that's both timely and accessible without being patronizing. I'm sure other people will comment on the acting, pacing, costuming, etc, so I won't bother here. But it's the ambition and scope of the movie that really makes it exceptional.

Imagine a woman alone in a house for forty five minutes in which absolutely nothing happens. Then this goes on twice more. The writing is flat and lifeless, and jokes unfunny, and the bad acting keeps you from caring about any of the characters, even when they battle wolf packs and get beaten up by fraternity goons. Anyone that ranked this movie higher than a two is not fully sane.