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Oh, but it gets better - the chase comes to a point where K.I.T.T. The worst offender was a scene where our heroes, in their 540HP, computer driven Ford Shelby Mustang are being chased by the bad guys in what looks like one of those SUV/station wagon hybrids. However there were a number of thing that struck me as really annoying and sometimes blindingly stupid.
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It was basically "keep the bad guys from decrypting the code and uploading instructions to the satellite." Not what I'd call riveting. The threat just wasn't all that compelling despite the described possibility of armageddon. Part of what kept it from being better is that the story was pretty weak. Not at the level of say, Journeyman, Lost or Battlestar Galactica, but it was better than Bionic Woman.
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What is there to say here? It was your pretty typical mid-level TV show.
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I think that if this gets spun off into a weekly series he'll probably do all right. I will admit that soap opera actor Justin Bruening wasn't nearly as bad as I thought he'd be based on the brief clips that were released about a week ago. Immediately following we meet Carrie Ruvai, a tough FBI agent which the shows goes out of its way to show us is a lesbian with a penchant for one-night stands.Īll this within the first 10 minutes of the show - I suppose to make sure that the target male demographic hangs around to watch then next 110 minutes, which BTW contains nothing even remotely resembling these first few scenes, thus proving my point for their insertion.Īnyway, K.I.T.T tracks down Sarah, warns her she's in danger, picks her up and then brings her to Mike because they had a brief fling and her father trusts him to take care of her if anything goes wrong. It felt like the PG-13 version of a wet t-shirt contest. Then we cut to a beach scene with a lingering close up of some wet hottie removing her t-shirt to show off her glistening bikini-clad chest. Mike is in debt to some loan shark to the tune of $90 grand, and after demonstrating some of his ex-Army Ranger fighting skills is given until that evening to raise the money.ĭumb item #2: I found it hard to swallow that an ex-Army Ranger would be such an obviously undisciplined and irresponsible guy. It seems that Mike races cars and his roomie is the mechanic. From there we cut to seeing Mike Tracer in bed with not one, but two babes, and he shares a house with the obligatory polar opposite geeky roommate. We start off with meeting the daughter of Graiman: 24 year old Sarah who is the prototypical attractive Ph.D candidate wearing glasses to make her look smarter. Unfortunately when we return from commercial things get a bit cheesy.
I also liked the opening credits, which used the original music and definitely paid tribute to the old TV series. The bullet-proof visual effect was actually pretty cool, with a slow-mo closeup of the bullets hitting the car, causing some sort of crystalline effect and then bouncing off not leaving a scratch. The car promptly starts up on its own and takes off, but not before capturing an image of the lead bad guy, and showing off its bullet-proof abilities. They explore the house and come across our hero: The Knight Industries 3000, aka K.I.T.T. And Graiman is working on it on his home computers.Īs they're questioning and strong-arming him, he apparently dies. It's so dangerous that in the wrong hands it could be used to start a war. It seems he's been working on some top secret government program and the baddies want the information on his hard drive, along with the decryption codes.ĭumb item #1: Graiman it turns out is working on some super-top-secret computer program called Prometheus which can control satellites, computer networks and prepare pancakes (ok, I made that last one up). A couple of bad guys posing as guys from the local electric company show up at the door of inventor Charles Graiman. I fully admit that I expected the worst from this, so believe me when I say I was surprised that I actually found the opening few minutes to be pretty decent.
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Overall I would describe it as a typical mediocre TV movie punctuated with moments of awfulness.īTW, there will be spoilers in this Knight Rider review, so you have been warned. I will say that one of the things I reminded myself of as I watched this with the intention of writing a review was that the original series was not exactly Citizen Kane. Now that that's out of the way, please don't mistake "not as awful" for "awesome." Let's get just get straight to the punch line: NBC's Knight Rider TV movie (or pilot, depending on what you'd rather call it) was not nearly as awful as I had anticipated. This review is for last February's two hour pilot - If you're looking for the September Knight Rider series premiere review click here.