"Knight Rider" (2008) TV series 2008-2009

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Seasons:

1

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Justin Bruening	...	Mike Traceur (18 episodes, 2008-2009)
Deanna Russo	...	Sarah Graiman (18 episodes, 2008-2009)
Paul Campbell	...	Billy Morgan (18 episodes, 2008-2009)
Val Kilmer	...	K.I.T.T. (18 episodes, 2008-2009)
Smith Cho	...	Zoe Chae (17 episodes, 2008-2009)
Bruce Davison	...	Charles Graiman (13 episodes, 2008-2009)
Sydney Tamiia Poitier	...	Carrie Rivai (12 episodes, 2008-2009)
Yancey Arias	...	Alex Torres (12 episodes, 2008-2009)

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Netherlands:6

Company:

Dutch Oven

Trivia:

The DVD release is titled "Season 1" not "The Complete Series", even though the show was already canceled.

Goofs:

Plot holes: In episode 112 ("Knight Rider: Knight to King's Pawn (#1.12)" (2009)), it's revealed that K.I.T.T. was built to create a more compliant personality to eventually modify K.A.R.R.'s personality. However, in episode 106 ("Knight Rider: Knight of the Living Dead (#1.6)" (2008)), it's explained that K.I.T.T.'s personality is part of his neural net, and cannot be downloaded or removed. This makes K.I.T.T.'s very creation pointless, since the qualities needed to modify K.A.R.R. cannot be transplanted.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Jerry Seinfeld/Craig Bierko (#17.29)" (2009)

Money badly spent

I wondered about this show. First of all, I was rather disappointed about the car. I mean, discarding the stylish Trans Am for a mere Mustang? Just doesn't do the job. After watching KITT for a while, it turns out he can even transform in three forms, which is quite senseless and most of the time it does not even make sense... The voice of KITT is rather boring and toneless.

Then the new intro song. Normally I like remakes with a bit of a rock twitch, but this one? Rather disappointing.

Then the more important things: The stories. I watched several episodes, as I want to give it several chances, but it does not really seem to get better. The stories are rather flat and chaotic and even quite repetitive to some lengths.

The acting is most of the time either overacted, or on the contrary missing livelihood in mimics and body language.

The special effects are really well done. Alas most of the time, they do not add to the story. On the contrary even, they are too often a way to show off with the CGI capabilities.

In some fist fighting scenes, the stand-ins didn't even look like the original actors. Different size, different body mass, different colour of hair, different hairdo. Normally I do not complain about such things, but here it's embarrassingly obvious at times.

Long story short: they better had spent less money on the effects and more money on decent writings and talented actors.