Before I started watching it I already knew about its negative reviews, but a part of me was confident that maybe the movie was in the "get him" range and that because Stephen King was the director people were expecting great things from him. But that's not the case.
The first few minutes of the movie start off well. From what I understood a comet is going to be near the earth and it's going to take 8 days to finish passing. During that time electrical things are going to start behaving in a weird and dangerous way. We start to see bloody scenes, like the soda can machine that shoots in an exaggerated way and hits the professor in the head. Or the steamroller that runs over a child.
These first few minutes made me believe that the whole movie would be entertaining. I even liked it a lot when the trucks started to revolve around the gas station.
But it's from here on that the movie really drops off. Bored me more and more.
Not to mention the asshole characters... Who would risk their life to save a nasty guy you just met? I mean, hello!
Why didn't the trucks just attack that gas station and kill them outright? Why did they stretch this scene of the trucks turning and turning and turning so long?
The movie is an hour and a half long, it could very well be an hour or less. There are a lot of scenes that lead to nothing. They bore. They're just for filler. And they're poorly done!
This movie is based on one of King's own stories, it's called "Trucks" and is in the anthology "The threshold of the night" (anthology with excellent opinions by the way, I hope to read this book this year).
I think Stephen King is very good at writing, but here he showed that perhaps directing is not his strong point.
Did you see it, did you like it?
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