i liked the movie, and would actually rank it above both TKR and KR2000.
i know, first time i watched it i was very disappointed with it, the way it was a completely new story, but a few months later a few friends of mine wanted to see it and so i watched it with them again, this time KNOWING (as did they, i gave them a heads-up!) that it wasn't the michael/KITT story.
looking at it from that fresh perspective from the outlook i thoroughly enjoyed it, and felt it had a great "knight rider" feel to it. now i don't mean "feel" in the literal sense because it IS a very different (and more adult) beast than our beloved show, but i just feel it stayed more true to the morals and the motto behind KR than the other spin-offs did, only taking a 100% new approach.
maybe that was the best approach...? because certainly any spin-off that has tried to follow on from the 80's story has fallen way short.
and i actually liked the car. it went well with the setting (though maybe having it in the year 2010 was a little soon) and i liked the tongue-in-chekk reference when all those other sports cars were uncovered one-by-one. as they did that, they were (in my opinion) deliberatly doing so because many people were probably keen to see which big flashy car would be next in the series
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(it would be what people would expect, but this film did a terrific job for me in going against the grain to be completely unpredictable) and jake just shot them all down with a quick comment. when the final car was uncovered and the other guy (whose name i forget... for the first time ever! lol!) just complained about it but jake saw the proper "foundation" of a well-built and strong car i thought it was terrific. and the powerful music when they rolled it out after putting it together was great
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i sat back and just thought "oh hell yeh!".
i liked the way that, if it had gone to a series, that another underlying theme would have been the unrequited (to an extent) relationship between jake and hannah. i mean, they're in love, they ARE together, yet at the same time they're not. would have been interesting and very character building.
at the end of the film we also had all of our KR characters in place if you think about it: Jake (Michael), Hannah (KITT, and maybe to some extent stevie), jake's bro (devon, as he was the sheriff and jake was going to be helping him out with special missions etc that only him and his car could handle), the guy from the desert (bonnie) and the young guy with the tank (RC).
sorry i can't remember their names, after all it's been a LONG time since i saw it and it WAS only the one episode... hmm... but i DO have an idea for a fan fic
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hehe.
yeh i know, i waffle don't i? lol. at the end of the day, an overall star-rating (out of five) for this compared to the spin-offs would be:
KR2000 = **
KR2010 = ****
TKR = **** for two of the episodes, an average of ** out of five for the other 20