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Released Year: 1986
Runtime: 97 minutes
Directors: Stephen King
Casts: J. Don Ferguson, Stephen King, Yeardley Smith, Frankie Faison, Laura Harrington, Giancarlo Esposito, Pat Hingle, Emilio Estevez, Leon Rippy, Jack Canon, Holter Graham, J.C. Quinn, Ellen McElduff, Christopher Murney, Marla Maples, John Short, John Brasington, Robert Gooden, R. Pickett Bugg, Ned Austin, Bob Gunter, Bill Huggins
IMDB: Maximum Overdrive (1986)
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(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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Miami Herald -
Maximum Overdrive is the classic botch. Good idea, nice effects, bad pacing, porous script, no punch...Too bad. As usual, the premise has promise. [26 July 1986, p.C1]
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Los Angeles Times -
Maximum Overdrive offers a variation on what has become a hopelessly hackneyed theme -- technology as monster. As long as King is tinkering with his crazed machines, the film sustains a certain amount of ominous tension, but as soon as the author turns his attention to his actors, the movie's slender storyline goes limp. It's dreary to the max.
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The New York Times -
For the most part, [King] has taken a promising notion - our dependence on our machines - and turned it into one long car-crunch movie, wheezing from setups to crackups.
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Time Out London -
A loud, obnoxious, single-idea schlocker...There's carnage galore, but minimal interest. King himself described it as a 'wonderful moron picture', and he was half-right.
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Variety -
Master manipulator Stephen King, making his directoral debut from his own script, fails to create a convincing enough environment to make the kind of nonsense he's offering here believable or fun.
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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
(1 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 1986
Runtime: 97 minutes
Directors: Stephen King
Casts: J. Don Ferguson, Stephen King, Yeardley Smith, Frankie Faison, Laura Harrington, Giancarlo Esposito, Pat Hingle, Emilio Estevez, Leon Rippy, Jack Canon, Holter Graham, J.C. Quinn, Ellen McElduff, Christopher Murney, Marla Maples, John Short, John Brasington, Robert Gooden, R. Pickett Bugg, Ned Austin, Bob Gunter, Bill Huggins
IMDB: Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Storyline
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
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Reviews
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Miami Herald -
Maximum Overdrive is the classic botch. Good idea, nice effects, bad pacing, porous script, no punch...Too bad. As usual, the premise has promise. [26 July 1986, p.C1]
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Los Angeles Times -
Maximum Overdrive offers a variation on what has become a hopelessly hackneyed theme -- technology as monster. As long as King is tinkering with his crazed machines, the film sustains a certain amount of ominous tension, but as soon as the author turns his attention to his actors, the movie's slender storyline goes limp. It's dreary to the max.
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The New York Times -
For the most part, [King] has taken a promising notion - our dependence on our machines - and turned it into one long car-crunch movie, wheezing from setups to crackups.
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Time Out London -
A loud, obnoxious, single-idea schlocker...There's carnage galore, but minimal interest. King himself described it as a 'wonderful moron picture', and he was half-right.
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Variety -
Master manipulator Stephen King, making his directoral debut from his own script, fails to create a convincing enough environment to make the kind of nonsense he's offering here believable or fun.
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When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.