Knight Rider 2010 (1994) (TV)

User Rating:

2.9/10   

Director:

Sam Pillsbury

Writer:

John Leekley (written by)

Release Date:

13 February 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".

Plot Keywords:

Smart Car | Talking Car | Sequel | Animate Car | Number In Title

Cast

Richard Joseph Paul	...	Jake McQueen
Hudson Leick	...	Hannah Tyrie (as Heidi Leick)
Michael Beach	...	Marshal Will McQueen
Don McManus	...	Dean
Nicky Katt	...	Johnny
Badja Djola	...	Zeke
Mark Pellegrino	...	Robert Lee
Una Damon	...	Kabuki
Kimberly Guerrero	...	Maria (as Kimberly Norris)
Brion James	...	Jared
Jim Cody Williams	...	Hillbilly
Betty Matwick	...	Pregnant Woman
Joseph A. Redondo	...	Cholo (as Joseph Redondo)
Wanda Dittman	...	Professor's Wife
Ramon Chavez	...	Professor

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:PG | UK:PG (video premiere)

Company:

Universal TV

Movie Connections:

Followed by "Knight Rider: Knight Rider (#1.0)" (2008)

This isn't "Knight Rider" at all...

This 'movie' is rarely discussed or aired on TV. There is a very good reason why, I'll explain.

Aside from the name in the title and a guy driving a car, this movie really has NOTHING at all to do with the 80's TV series 'Knight Rider'that most of us grew up watching. Instead this movie is more like a low budget Mad Max sequel with cyber-punk undertones. I'll try and sum up the movie for you: In the future earth is barren and polluted, there's this guy with a big truck who smuggles people into the clean air domes (makes ya think of Total Recall, eh?) he meets up with this scientist guy who wants to steal his organs using this soul-stealing crystal thing, the immigrant smuggler guy's girlfriend gets her soul trapped in the crystal instead, immigrant smuggler guy then puts the crystal into a car he built from scraps of a Mustang. The scientist villain guy is thwarted, a joke is made about doing some matrix-ish cybersex interface thing and our heroes drive off into the sunset.

The TV movie before 2010; KR2000 was crud but it at least had some relevance to the 80's series, Team Knight Rider was also terrible but still had ties to KITT and The Foundation. KR2010 is crap. Mr. Hasselhoff and Mr. Larson; if you have any sense, don't let 'Knight Rider: The Movie' be like this. Base it around the pilot ep where Michael Long is shot, please... We're tired of made-for-TV garbage. If Dukes of Hazzard can have a decent theatre movie, can't Knight Rider?