The Film (3.5/5)

    A comet passes over Earth, and causes all the mechanical technology to gain a mind of its own. As such, machinery comes to life and goes on the attack attempting to kill their human creators, this includes bridges that open up and causes cars to slide down and crash, to vending machines which  dispense sodas to a fatal degree. However, the occupants of the Dixie Boy Truck Stop in N.C. have a bigger problem the trucks in their lot, and the adjacent area have come to life, and are trying to kill them, and those that try to find shelter there. It's up to Bill (Emilio Estevez), an ex-con that is trying to find some stability in his life to try and organize the group of people at the truck stop, and get them to safety.

    Maximum Overdrive is the one and only feature film directed by Stephen King, and is based on his short story, Trucks. Over the years King has complained about the treatment of his work in the cinematic realm, so it's no shock that he'd try to throw his hat into the ring eventually. However, when he did the work was largely dismissed by critics as being sub par. However, the film has gained an audience over the year as being somewhat of a camp classic, and with killer trucks and a soundtrack compromised entirely of AC/DC songs what's to hate? 

     The characters I'll admit are a bit cliché, but the dialogue is silly, and performed solidly for the material on display.  But the film at 98 minutes flows quite well, and with a self-firing, self moving machine gun, a truck with the face of the Green Goblin as the main villain, and lots of other weirdness going on, there is not a lot to hate.

Audio/Video (2.5/5)

    Vestron Video Collector's Series presents Maximum Overdrive in a complicated 2:35:1 1080p transfer. I'm not one for puns, but can we call this one "Waximum Overdrive".  OK, now that I got that out of the way, colors are solid, blacks are deep, but most traces of grain are scrubbed here, faces have a waxy complexion in most sequences, but not all, giving the impression that quite a bit of digital noise reduction was applied here, much like the previous DAGON transfer.   I wish I had better news, I don't.

    Audio is presented with a DTS-HD MA 2.0 track in English. This fares much better with clear sound, that comes through quite loud and clear.

Extras (4/5)

    One area where the disc shines is in the extras. We get 2 commentary tracks one with the author on a book on Stephen King on film and another with Ryan Turek and Jonah Rey. There is a huge amount of on camera interviews with cast and crew, also behind the scenes footage, trailer, TV spots, and a stil gallery.

Overall

    Maximum Overdrive is a load of fun, but the video transfer is seriously lacking. It is, however, loaded up with extras. I am recomending this for the film, and extras.