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I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Director Chris Thomsen does superb work in bringing the Stephen King story to the screen as a truly exciting work of cinema. With excellent special effects and stunning cinematography, this is what King's own directorial effort with Maximum Overdrive should have been. Here, King's vision is fleshed out and fully realized as never before. The cast is terrific as well, with Timothy Busfield giving one of his most powerful performances. The tension is unrelenting and beyond endurance at times but those who stay with this fine film until its shattering climax will be richly rewarded by the incredible cinematic experience that is Trucks.

Really, the plot is very similar to King's earlier film, Maximum Overdrive. Trucks suddenly start coming to life, driving themselves and pursuing people with lethal intent. A group of travelers and locals are imprisoned inside the truckstop diner. There they plot various means of escape from the prowling trucks outside. It is theorized that the trucks could have been activated by debris from a passing comet, a toxic pollution spill or military experiments at the nearby Area 51.A toxic pollution spill, seriously? You know, you can slap the name Stephen King on any movie, good or bad, and people will watch it if they're a fan. Granted his short story was much better, but I've seen a ton of trash Stephen King movies like Firestarter 2: Rekindled and I've also seen some films of his that were excellent, like Pet Sematary. It makes no difference who wrote the books, if the movie was badly made than the author has nothing to do with it.Trucks is very boring in the beginning, and though I love Canada, Manitoba isn't the type of place to film a movie. Dolores Claiborne, filmed in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia, has much better scenery material. The soundtrack was dull and the acting was generally very bad... but on the bright side, Amy Stewert, who had the role of Amanda Benson in the spectacular TV movie Welcome to Dead House that same year, played the minor role of Abby very well in Trucks.I was about to rate it two stars but I thought that to be a little unfair, so I give it 4/10.

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

Stephen King's sole directorial effort MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) apparently wasn't silly enough (or didn't bomb hard enough) to kill the will of producers to remake his short story "Trucks" just over a decade later. In this incarnation, folks are held captive by the title beasts in a rustic truck stop run by Ray (Timothy Busfield). This was made-for- TV with a low budget and is decidedly less goofy so one has to wonder, "Why bother?" I mean, outside of the obvious, "We'll put Kings name on it and make a ton of money." The cast of mostly Canadians is fine and the illogical scenes are abound (if machines are turning on you, why is your plan to ride a motorcycle to steal a helicopter from the Army base? ). The funniest bit is a truck using its mirrors to spy on someone and then trying to play it off when someone catches it. And since when do cars with unexplained sentient powers need to see from the driver's viewpoint? There are a few gory and unrelated kill scenes that look like they were added in post-production, seemingly confirmed by an "additional scenes" end credit. Interestingly, they were produced by William (SCARECROWS) Wesley.