Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

GL84 Working at a local truck-stop, a woman and a small gang of residents realize that all the vehicles and machines around them are behaving without human operators, and eventually trap them inside when they realize that a deadly chemical spill is responsible and try to get past the homicidal machines.This one here isn't that bad when it really tries to. The film's best feature is that it's pretty packed with action in here which manages to score some big points for all the big sequences. The big opening sequence where the big rig comes to life and chases them through the junkyard is a really enjoyable start to this one, and from the fun of the several thwarted escape attempts at the diner which includes the great corralling inside the motel to the several close-calls and chases of the group trying to get to their trucks or back inside the diner have a lot going for them. Away from the truck-stop, the early action out on the highways is pure greatness, from the encounter in the RV to the chase through the countryside leading up to the diner makes for some fun, and the scenes of the workers attempting to clean up the accident give this some. Throw in a genuinely creepy moment where two victims try to escape from a collapsing tunnel guarded by trucks which turns into a nice rescue attempt and the stellar sequence where they tackle the escape attempt while getting out of the diner into the wilderness provides plenty of destruction and mayhem that leads into the fast pace with a lot going on to keep it moving. The last bit that works is the cleverly-built beginning that successfully makes for a good mystery and a really creepy tone which are the film's good points even though this one does have a few problems. One of the bigger factors that hold it down is the PG-13 rating which is something big to get over. It really neuters the film a lot, since the big body count is taken out by being run over in the distance or by being blown up in an explosion and there's practically no blood at all due to the fact that the kills won't allow it to happen. All of them done with the action forces that to happen, and by being restricted to the truck- stop for the majority of the film, it doesn't offer opportunities for other details. The fact that it is a retread of the original, with the storyline being taken straight out and set against a few new scenes here and there. That the set-up is still pretty much the same and with a few new differences to put in place in here is something to get over. The last big flaw in here is the family drama that consumes so much of the film, whether it be the father-and-son story or the heroine's story or even one from the people stuck in the truck-stop have a sort of family drama about them, and with so many in here having a similar sort of problem take up so much screen-time is a big waste, since it just makes the film look all the weaker for featuring something that is continually brought up that wasn't fun to experience the first time. Beyond these, though, the film's other flaws are what hold it down the most.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.

ehrldawg A group of people at a truck stop are terrorized by possessed trucks.This is another attempt at Stephen Kings' short story. But this time,with few exceptions, only the trucks are possessed. No evil electrical knives.pop machines, or arcade machines. Its not as entertaining as Maximum Overdrive,but it is still interesting. Except, we still have truck drivers who cant out think or out maneuver a bunch of lumbering trucks. Bob and Pete;quit looking at Hopes' ass,get out there and start puttin' crowbars in radiators. Then blind them by smashing out their headlights. A running man can accomplish this in no time flat.Gene Pyrz drives the Western Star 18 wheeler.An Unknown Actor drives the Freightliner chemical big rig.That Unknown Actor and Gene Pyrz are permanent A list actors.Brenda Bakke and Sharon Bajor are hot.Brenda Bakkes' performance was outstanding!!erldwgstruckermovies.com

Seb This movie is based on a Stephen King short story which surprisingly isn't about a writer in Maine who is stuck for ideas, which is his usual hero. Instead there's some people in a truck stop who get menaced by trucks that come alive. Already you've got a plot that wouldn't look out of place in a Garth Marengi novel.In the short story there is little explanation as to why the trucks have turned hostile and that kind of works, well it works better than any explanation a rational person could come up with because it's patently a bit silly. Better to just leave it as a mystery hey? So what does the movie do? Delves right in there looking for answers.Various explanations come up, each more risible than the last. One fat guy thinks the trucks have come alive because of pollution or something, someone else thinks its to do with aliens. What I love best about the explanations is the way the actors look totally shamefaced as they say their lines. They know this is the lowest point in their probably now dead careers.You've already got one shiny nugget of comedy gold right there even before you factor in the bad acting but wipe it against your sleeve and you'll see it really shines with much more.A guy gets attacked with the most rubber looking axe in the history of film making. Honestly, I swear I had to watch that bit five times. Another guy gets attacked by a toy truck he could easily drop kick across the street and has to pretend to be knocked over so it can ram him in the head a few times.This is priceless straight-faced comedy the like of which you rarely see these days. It's so poor it really deserves a 1 but I can't bring myself to give it less than 2 because it made me laugh so much.If you love bad movies this one needs to be on your shelf. I would love to have seen Stephen Kings face when he first saw this aired.

Woodyanders Stephen King's sole directorial effort "Maximum Overdrive" still qualifies as one of the single most horrible cinematic adaptations of his work to date. It's a total mess that's fatally undone by intolerably obnoxious nincompoop characters, sloppy plotting, and a simply dreadful sense of rancidly unamusing toilet bowl humor. Granted, the central premise -- a comet which brushes perilously close to the Earth's atmosphere somehow causes all the trucks to take on a murderously intelligent and malevolent sentient life of their own, with a bunch of demonic semis holding a motley assortment of people hostage in a besieged diner -- was promising, but King's messy, clumsy and horrendously diffuse (mis)direction and a narrative ridden with enough gaping plot holes to drive a Diesel through 'em failed to due said premise any justice.Fortunately, this second celluloid take on the short yarn "Trucks" rates as a markedly better and more effective picture: It's smart, absorbing and suspenseful, with sure, low-key direction, a tight, sharply focused script, a few nifty violent episodes (a mailman getting gruesomely snuffed by a vicious tiny toy dump truck provides a blackly funny highlight), a refreshing paucity of both needless pretense and equally unnecessary razzle-dazzle, a commendably straightforward, matter-of-fact, down-to-earth sober tone, realistic sounding dialogue, a genuinely eerie atmosphere of total desolation (the dry, dusty desert locations help immensely here), spare, unflashy cinematography, appealingly plain everyday country folks main characters, and a splendidly bleak surprise ending punching up the quality level to a finely high and well-sustained standard indeed. Timothy Busfield as an affable nice guy gas station proprietor and the fetching Brenda Bakke as the quick-thinking, level-headed heroine lead the uniformly solid no-name cast (Jay Brazzeau is especially engaging as gentle, philosophical old hippie Jack). Moreover, this film mean business throughout and doesn't play fair, actually going as far as to bump off some of the more likable characters. It's this latter element of grim seriousness that makes all the difference, thus enabling a fantastic premise to acquire a reasonable semblance of plausibility which in turn puts this feature over as a good little fright flick.