Friday, February 5, 1999

Review – Maximum Overdrive

What would possess Stephen King to want to make a movie out of a stupid little story he wrote years earlier about trucks (and some, though apparently not all, other machines) turning on humanity and grinding us all into hamburger? Unless you’re into celebrity cameos (King himself as the victim of an ATM, Marla Maples Trump as bridge accident victim, and a much more extensive role for squeaky Yeardley Smith, better known to the world as the voice of Lisa Simpson), this doesn’t offer much more than an implausible plot, a script unworthy of its author, and a little bush league gore. See if desperate

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