Trailer
Cast
Emilio Estevez Bill Robinson
Pat Hingle Hendershot
Laura Harrington Brett
Yeardley Smith Connie
John Short Curt
Ellen McElduff Wanda June
J.C. Quinn Duncan
Christopher Murney Camp Loman
Holter Graham Deke
Plot
On June 19, 1987 at 9:47 am Eastern Standard Time, planet Earth passes through the tail of a rogue comet, Rhea-M, for just over a week.
Electronics start going rogue against humans due to this meteor's influence. Lawnmowers attack humans, Walkmans electrocute the people who are listening to it via the headset, wtc.
A group of folks start gathering at a gas station/restaurant named Dixie Boy (the owner, staff, and a few truckers). Soon a newlywed couple named Curt and Connie, a Bible-thumper with a hitchhiker, and one of the staff's son join them. How can they survive the madness of the murderous machines, including all of those semis that are on site asking for diesel to stay "alive"? Will humans get on top again or will this be the end of humankind?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3.5/5 -
Thumbs down for AC/DC only music. Seriously, give us some variety. Throw in some Eagles or something. Listening to overplayed songs from AC/DC really made me dislike the movie.
The "we found love" connection for Bill was terrible and over dramatized. "Oh, you're such a hero. Let's have sex." And then "I really care about you more than a one-time fling." WTF.
The newlywed woman was too high-pitched and annoying. Tone it down, girl. Sure, you're scared but that high of a pitch is disgusting.
The baseball kid's connection to the mechanic was not brought up until after the fact his dad was dead and he had struggled all the way to the gas station [not random circumstance]. I thought he was just some random kid but twist he's related to someone! Smooth....
Okay, so the electronics of the world is attacking and the station's waitress loses her head at the machines as she screams "we made you", though these machines are controlling their environment. If these semi trucks are trying to squish you when you are outside, give them respect! Semi trucks are HUGE compared to a helpless human. Don't get mad at the machines and provoke them.
Okay, this next one really bugged me: there was a HUGE coincidence that they left the gas station RIGHT before the machines destroyed it. I mean, the semi trucks wanted fuel, yes, but why did they wait until right after the humans left to destroy the gas station? They should have just destroyed it right after they drained the diesel tanks dry. There was no reason to let the humans rest a bit after the hot day fueling a massive caravan of semi trucks. Do you realize how many gallons a semi truck holds? About 100-400 gallons per truck times like 50 trucks in the line-up. And it takes a while to fuel when you don't have a fast-fuel nozzle system. As a bus driver, I can say that it takes near 20 minutes to fuel a bus (in a twice a week fuel setting) full and that is maybe 100 gallons. So 20 minutes times 50 trucks in the heat. Yeah, and the semi trucks give the humans a break afterwards before they destroy the building? Seems unreasonable, but these are animated machines so do they have reason?
Anyways, decent plot but no character development aside the "we found love" couple. The best bit is King's cameo at the beginning: "come over here, sugarbuns. This machine just called me an asshole".
So in summary, the idea of the plot was interesting (as is typical of Stephen King stories) but there was little character development, terrible music, a few of the character flaws shown were beyond annoying even when dealing with a machine-taking-over apocalypse, and some logic was thrown out the window. Oh, and the ending? *SPOILERS* The survivors of Dixie Boy survived the apocalypse and are still surviving. Not joking, there was a typed clip at the end saying just that.
That's my review. Thanks for reading. Watch if you wish but realize that you have been warned, from one Stephen King fan to you: it isn't the best King tale rendition out there (in my honest opinion). Go to Stephen King's "The Shining" mini-series for that.
More movie reviews to come eventually, as always.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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