The time is upon us retro movie geeks. The Knight Rider TV Movie airs tonight.
It might just suck balls, and the retro purists will hate the voice (Val Kilmer digitized) and the car not being a TransAm, but we will have to see. If this actually gets good reviews, rumour has it they will base an ongoing TV Series on it.
Check your local listings.
And in case you missed the teaser trailer:
Comments
I’m a hour into this movie and I got to say the commercials are killing it. It seems that for every 5 minutes of movie there is 6 minutes of commercials. If they make this into a tv series again I am going the itunes route to avoid the multitude of commercials.
It was lame. They of course couldnt keep the politics out of it and made evil Haliburton try to take over the world. Love the Hoff though.
The Good:
The car. I loved Pontiac Firebirds, but this Mustang made a great KITT. It’s a sequel, not a remake, so having a different car isn’t a big deal.
Bruce Davison and Deanna Russo. They were excellent. Even when given cheezy dialog, they delivered excellent.
The story. It was a good story, a solid sequel. It was a nice way to show off the new KITT, and introduce us to the characters. Too bad it was executed poorly.
The Bad:
The story. I hated that they called the bad buys “Black River”. How much closer to ‘Black Water” can you get. Also, the whole $90,000 was cheesy and unnecessary.
Justin Bruening. He is a terrible “Micheal”. He needs to be replaced if this series is going to succeed.
Val Kilmer. I though I was going to like it (http://www.thetvshowblog.com/2008/02/06/val-kilmer-the-new-voice-of-kitt/), but it didn’t work. He doesn’t have the right type of voice to play the car.
Overall, it was good, but far from great. It wasn’t as bad as Bionic Woman, but not even close to BSG. Then again, the BSG “pilot” wasn’t astounding.
I enjoyed it and look forward to a possible series.