Stephen king directs! (Maximum Overdrive (DVD))

Member Name: moleman

Product:	Maximum Overdrive (DVD)
Date:	16/09/00 (52 review reads)
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Advantages: Fully enjoyable, some original ideas

Disadvantages: Very, very silly

With this movie, Stephen King's directorial debut, the author siad he wanted to make a trash B-movie. And boy, did he succeed!
Based loosely on his short story Trucks, the has Earth passing through the tail of a comet. A side effect of this is that machines develop a mind of their own and decide to kill everyone! From a killer coke vending machine to a homicial pinball machine, they're out to get us1 The main thrust of the action takes place in a truck stop, where the occupants (including Emilio Estevez) are held hostage by their own trucks. The 'leader' of these is a sinister looking black truck with the face of the Green Goblin (Spiderman villain) mounted on the front.
A real classic of cheesy violence, loud rock soundtrack ( a pretty good selection of songs by AC/DC), and silly plotting.

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