Michael Knight is now a James Bond type character, except he’s like 25 years old (or looks it). I didn’t buy one minute of his attempts at being suave.
Our first view of KITT is in his “attack mode” configuration. This means that he has ground effects, spoilers, and some ridiculous looking blowers on the hood. So much for subtle.
KITT is now a mustang… or a F150 truck, or probably anything Ford makes. I expect next episode KITT will go into “stealth mode” by turning into a Ford Taurus.
In one scene, the two heroes jump into the bed of KITT truck and it transforms into a car while they are shifted to the front seats somehow. It looked as ridiculous as it sounds.
KITT is struck by a missle that has some chemically enhanced napalm or something on it that prevents the flames from going out.
Despite the fact that KITT is now going 377 miles per hour in CITY STREETS, the flames continue to heat up the car, threatening the lives of Michael and Sarah. Oh noes!
What do they do? TAKE THEIR CLOTHES OFF. Sarah tells Michael to not get excited and that it’s “just the heat of the moment”. Ugh. KITT confirms that taking their clothes off is a good idea. (it’s a bad idea to remove the insulation between your body and the heat) Fireman don’t go into fires in speedos for a reason.
Meanwhile, back at the Knight Industries command center, there are literally tons of people moving around, pushing carts, sitting at computers, and generally looking very busy and concerned that Michael and Sarah are about to die. It all looked ridiculous.
When KITT makes it back to the command center (after a ridiculous scene involving oxygen removal to put the flames out), our two heroes are unconscious and need to be revived with special blue glowing gun things. They awake instantly and are back in action.
We are introduced to two new characters, a tech geek who portrays every geek stereotype and valley girl hottie Smith Cho who speaks 9 languages and enjoys taunting the geek with her body and saying things like “we should make babies” and then laughing at him. Ugh.
KITT spent too much time analyzing hormone levels and discussing the love relationship between Michael and Sarah (his sidekick apparently).
There were several driving scenes where the green screen was poorly done. Also, Michael spent a bunch of time driving while looking everywhere else but the road. I suspose KITT could have been driving, but why were Michael’s hands on the steering wheel then?
The cliche lines were over the top. Here are a few choice ones:
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way” (villain says to Sarah while threatening her with a syringe of glowing green liquid)
“KITT, we’re bringing you in hot!” (referring to the fact that KITT was on fire at the time)
“Mike, you have to get his thumb back at all costs!” (referring to a severed thumb that contained DNA they needed to unlock an encryption algorithm)
Oh, the good points about the show
Val Kilmer as KITT is pretty sweet actually. His performance as KITT is panned online by most reviewers, but I actually liked it.
The CGI on the transformations wasn’t as good as the Transformers movie, but darn good for a TV show.
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