Knight Rider 2000

1991

Action / Sci-Fi

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 3779 3.8K

man vs machine government police cryogenics robot gadget car

Plot summary

In the future, guns are banned and criminals are frozen for the duration of their sentences. A recent spate of killings involving handguns brings Michael Knight back to fight for justice, but he insists of the help of KITT, his artificially-intelligent car from decades ago. The only problem is that KITT has been deactivated.

Director

Alan J. Levi Photo
Alan J. Levi

Top cast

Edward Mulhare Photo
Edward Mulhare as Devon Miles
Richard Basehart Photo
Richard Basehart as Wilton Knight - Flashback sequence
Lou Beatty Jr. Photo
Lou Beatty Jr. as Mayor Harold Abbey
Eugene Clark Photo
Eugene Clark as Officer Kurt Miller
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
874.8 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 6
1.59 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by crossnation 4 / 10

A Poor Follow-up to the 1980s series.

I watched this film on Netflix out of curiosity. If you enjoyed the 1980s "Knight Rider" series as I have, you will be disappointed by this low quality movie.The plot follows an illegal arms trade being organized in the "near future" (the year 2000) by corrupt police and government officials, with Michael Knight coming out of retirement and being helped by new protagonists at the Foundation.The film lacks a lot of what made the original TV series so memorable. There is no black Pontiac, as KITT was sold for scrap and had to be rebuilt. There is no Bonnie, the attractive and intelligent female mechanic who was in most of the series. There is no campy action or offbeat humor, the story is much slower-paced than the typical TV episode. And the beloved theme song is absent.There's also a lot of discontinuity. Now Michael Knight is a genius with electronics, something that was never the case before. Now KITT uses profanity and throws temper tantrums, both of which were foreign to the original series. To say nothing of the fact that somehow Devon and Knight have both aged very little, even though the story is set 15 years AFTER the series ended (5 years in real life).That said, its not without its interesting points. It is interesting to see some of the future predictions they had at the time. It is interesting to see the direction that "Knight Rider" went in post-TV series. As someone who just finished watching "Stargate SG-1" on Netflix, it was interesting to see a younger Carmen Argenziano before he was cast as Major Carter's dad.Avoid unless you are a big Hoff fan or are interested in the things I mentioned above. Better to re-watch the 1980s series instead.
Reviewed by Apostic 5 / 10

Better Than Expected

So you know where this is coming from: I was in my twenties when Knight Rider ran regularly on NBC. I didn't think much of it then. To me, it was an action-adventure variation on My Mother the Car. So I had low expectations for the return.My low expectations were easily exceeded. There are some cute plot twists and developments afoot here, bordering on acceptable science fiction. This is NOT great cinema nor film, but it is a fun little movie that doesn't lose sight of what it is.
Read more IMDb reviews

10 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment