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Maximum Overdrive

1986, Movie, R, 97 mins

Maximum Overdrive: Review

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Possibly no contemporary author has ever been as abused by the movies as Stephen King has, though this time he has no one to blame but himself. The plot hinges on a comet passing near the Earth and mysteriously turning some (but not all) machines into mad killers. At the Dixie Boy truck stop, several semis besiege the patrons and staff, including manager Hendershot (Pat Hingle), former college boy and prison parolee Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez), tough-but-sweet hitchhiker Brett (Laura Harrington), ditzy redneck newlyweds Curt and Wanda June (John Short and Ellen McElduff), and about a dozen others whose only plot function is to act scared then become victims. At first the trucks are content to simply run down anyone who shows his face outside the restaurant, but later they muster up enough courage to attack the Dixie Boy. Without doubt one of the dumbest movies of 1986, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE doesn't work on any level. As a comedy it's obvious and asinine, as a horror film it's simply not scary, and as an action film it's a bore. The inconsistencies of internal logic are too messy to detail, but one of the most annoying is Hendershot's refusal to use more than two of the scores of anti-tank missiles he has in his basement. Estevez's Bill, on the other hand, seems dead serious throughout, and therefore the biggest idiot of all as he tries to synthesize some rational explanation for events. leave a comment
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