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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 57357
Released: October 21, 1998 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A chilling tale of technology turned evil. In the infamous area 51 zone renowned for its ufo sightings residents of a small town are cut off from civilization and held hostage when a mysterious convoy of driverless trucks goes on the rampage. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/16/2005 Starring: Timothy Busfield Brenda Bakke Run time: 99 minutes Rating: R Director: Chris Thomson
Trucks Reviews:
Stephen King 
2009-12-11 - I bought this because I'm a big Stephen King Fan and it's a alright movie,But It will stay with me for the collection.
a Cinematic Abortion of Epic Proportion 
2009-05-15 - If you truly want to die of boredom, then "TRUCKS" is for you. A shoddy made-for-TV remake of 1987's self-proclaimed moron movie MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (which was adapted, written and directed believe it or not by Stephen King), TRUCKS falls short of anything period. And no THIS IS NOT EVEN remotely based on the Stephen King short story, I have read it. The short story was way better than this, well I can't even write it out respect to Amazon and folks on here.
The movie lacks a useable plot and meanders to a very stupid ending with a talking helicopter. I thought this was about murderous machines not the freakin' TRANSFORMERS. I never get to see this infamous Toy truck scene with the mailman though I hear it's hilarous, I think it's gets edited by SciFi or I'm too bored to look at the screen the last two times it aired.
And that was Timothy Busfield in the film? I could have sworn it was John Ritter. Yup it was, I had to check IMDB for that, it's hard to tell them apart in my mind. At best avoid this movie at all cost! Put on a radiation suit to dump it in the trash if it shows up at your door, then contact HAZMAT to haul it away to safe location in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This film belongs in Chernobyl, buried and lost like a burnt out reactor.
I can go on all night but I have to get some sleep, as I have class finals in the morning and the amount of time to express how horrible this film is would be a full lifetime wasted on how disappointing it is. You're best bet for laughs and scares, stick with Maximum Overdrive it's packed with more plot than you shake a stick at. With TRUCKS, it's about as barren as the Sahara.
The obvious subject-line pun would get this review redlined. 
2008-11-20 - Trucks (Chris Thomson, 1997)
There is a school of thought, and one to which I subscribe completely, that states that if you're going to remake a movie, remake a bad movie. After all, there are any number of flicks out there with great ideas and terrible execution. Why bother remaking good-to-great movies when there's so much grist to work with that's justifiably obscure? However, the folks who decided to have another go at Stephen King's short story "Trucks," the basis for the execrable eighties horror flick Maximum Overdrive, neglected one small part of the philosophy-- that one should try to make a movie that was better than the original piece of crap. I mean, come on-- the tagline for the movie is "U-Turn, U-Die!". You know you're not going to be seeing a Welles film here.
The paper-thin plot revolves around trucks that start driving themselves and trap a small group of humans in a truck stop. Well, that's the original story, anyway. King is one of the masters of taking a paper-thin plot and turning it into a creepily effective story, but Brian Taggert (also responsible for such immortal fare as Poltergeist III and the 1991 TV remake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) figured that wasn't enough for a feature-length made-for-TV movie. And, you know, maybe he's right; after all, Maximum Overdrive was far more faithful to the story and still came out smelling like horse manure. So he added some backstories, a couple of romantic subplots, that sort of thing. All of which would have been well and good if any of them had actually gone anywhere.
Surprisingly, the acting here is not bad. The cast is headed by TV stalwart Timothy Busfield (The West Wing) and B-movie queen Brenda Bakke (Groom Lake), both of whom do about as well as possible with the material given them. (Bakke really does have acting chops to go with her considerable beauty, but for some reason she always seems to come up with terrible roles.) The rest of the cast is similarly pedigreed, and do about as well with the material (a young Brendan Fletcher is particularly notable playing Busfield's son). I wish I could tell you that the acting is a good enough reason to see this, but it really isn't. The movie is really, really badly-written, with subplots set up and then abandoned, characters completely changing (in one memorable case, a particular character, played by Sharon Baker, goes through what seems like three or four complete emotional makeovers in the space of roughly ten minutes; well, I guess it looks good on one's resume), and a deus ex machina ending that raises more questions than it answers. I thought the whole idea of deus ex machina was to tie everything up neatly. Silly me. **
Sucks!!!
2008-05-11 - First of all, i'm feeling generous giving this movie 2 stars. this movie sucks!! (So you know this movie is a remake of "maximum overdrive") And what the hell? A toy truck kills somebody!! Yah you heard me, KILLS somebody. Listen, if you want a good movie of the same genre, get stephen king's "maximum overdrive", great movie. "Trucks" is the worst movie iv'e ever seen in my life and I am ashamed that this movie exists. what an insult to "maximum overdrive". It doesn't deserve to be on dvd nor does it deserve my 2 star rating. PRAISE TO STEPHEN KING'S "MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE"
"TRUCKS" sucks!!!!!
Great Cheese Movie 
2008-03-06 - I know it's a remake of "Maximum Overdrive"(Also great movie), but what do you expect. Read the cover. It must be just my love of cheesy horror flicks. Sometimes a corny movie like this can be better than a slasher/blood and gore movie. When I saw this, I was not scared. I just laughed at it. Very predictable. If you want a horror film that is not scary and just plain fun, watch this movie. Like I said, GREAT CHEESE MOVIE!!
