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Knight Rider (2008) – Season 1
Mike Traceur (Justin Bruening) is tracked down by his ex-girlfriend Sarah Graiman (Deanna Russo), after her father, Dr. Charles Graiman (Bruce Davison), is kidnapped. Mike and Sarah rescue her father and Mike discovers that his father is Michael Knight. Mike decides to stick with Sarah and Dr. Graiman and together with KITT, an artificially intelligent Ford Shelby GT500KR, they fight crime. Also partnered with this trio is Carrie Rivai (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) and Alex Torres (Yancey Arias), FBI consultants and Billy Morgan (Paul Campbell) and Zoe Chae (Smith Cho) providing technical support.
Backdoor Pilot: Knight Rider
I don’t ask about the reason why NBC pulled this up. They failed with Bionic Woman and they surely failed with this one. But not at first sight.
The car looks great, Val Kilmer as KITT’s voice does a great job, Justin Bruening not so great, Deanna Russo way too hot to be on a NBC series, Sydney Tamiia Poitier was boring, just like Bruce Davison. The plot wasn’t great, because there was no plot, the action was good, the scenes with KITT in car chases or himself in action was good enough to amuse me. The special effects were okay. But the good thing about the TV movie is, it continues the story of Knight Rider and just doesn’t remake the whole story. So we actually see David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight in a cameo role, which gives nice background about our male protagonist. But forget about the logic, like: How did the bad guys arrive at the casino so fast and why did Graiman survive the car crash at the end, while the others die?
Just, shut down your brain and this is really fun to watch. 8/10
for graphic language, sexual references and depiction of fictional violence
