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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM

The Truck Stops Here
By Rouén Robinson
Feb 5, 2017 - 11:25:07 AM

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Meet Creech, a high school senior looking for a way out of the town he was born in builds a truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. When an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a subterranean creature, the high school student finds it and discovers that it may have a talent that will be key in getting him a better life somewhere else.

Tripp Coley is a high school senior who works part time at an auto salvage yard with a dream of creating a truck that will get him on the Monster Truck circuit and out of his small town. Meredith is tutoring Tripp because she has a crush on him, but soon joins him on his adventure to help a creature he finds that has crawled into the monster truck he built. Dr. Jim Dowd is the scientist who is working to discover how to communicate with the subterranean life forms that were discovered by the oil company he works for after an accident. Reece Tenneson is the head of the oil corporation who wants all the life forms involved in the accident in his possession including the one that escaped to the town.

Monster Trucks is the type of movie that gives children a false view of the world with no consequences to reckless action. Almost the entire cast is wasted in this movie as they are all way too talented to be caught in this dumpster fire of a flick. Chris Wedge should probably stick to the animated feature films he has been so successful at directing as his foray into directing a live action feature length motion picture is an absolute failure. The only thing that seems to work in this mess of a production are the effects of the creatures, but that is not enough to make this worth paying money to see. It tries to be a modern take on E. T. The Extraterrestrial but comes off as a weak version of Mac & Me.

I give this movie a rating of 1 out of 5.

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Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for FLIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen

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