Knight Rider (TV Series) Journey to the End of the Knight (2008) User Reviews

Improving

[ran-san · 6/10 · 9 October 2008]

After the first episode bogged down in plot exposition and defining characters already defined in the TV Movie, this episode was more in line with something out of the classic series. With a basic plot that could of worked with the original series (Street Racers doing smuggling), this managed to turn into a fairly decent episode, and has given me a little more hope for this series - enough to keep it on my DVR, at any rate.

Also, Val Kilmer seems to be doing slightly better as KITT. Not up to the original voice, but better than the "HAL mode" he was in the movie. I think someone may have set him down with the DVD collection of the first season of original Knight Rider, and let him re-envision the character.

Turbo Boost was done better in this episode than the Premiere, but the "KR" under the car is pointless, and slightly breaks the fourth wall.

Self-inflicted Overload

[ttapola · 2/10 · 17 October 2010]

I am so glad I gave the previous episode 3/10, leaving room for an even worse episode. And, boy, does #1.2 deliver the "goods"! Starting with the lame "clever" name, this episode is so bad that to run through everything that is wrong with it would exceed the review length limit, so I won't bother. The pre-credits sequence alone is so incredibly bad, it's not even unintentionally funny. People have committed suicides for experiencing less.

The viewer's mind is baffled with questions that should never even come up. When Mike is racing against the Bad Guy in Red Car, why is the green/blue-screen work so bad that even the original series had better effects? Why isn't the bad guy's hair affected by wind? How come the bad guy and Mike make eye contact through KITT's darkened windows? How is Mike able to make eye contact with the little boy in the car *directly* below? Just how long does that turbo boost jump last? Mike and KITT sure manage to talk *a lot* while the car is in the air. How come the crashes look like Z-budget amateur film making? Etc. etc.

There is absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever in this The Fast and the Furious rip-off. And even that was not a good movie in the first place. I'll be generous and give this one 2/10 just in case an even more idiotic episode crawls out. The fact that this series didn't make it past even 18 episodes proves that there is a limit on how much the show-runners can underestimate the intelligence of their audience.