| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Silliness limits this cartoon, which forces actors to take a back seat to know-it-all KITT (voice by Val Kilmer). |
| 40 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Knight Rider is something for 12-year-old boys (and 12-year-old-boys at heart), undemanding, unsophisticated, no deeper than the thickness of a comic-book page. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
A show that delivers every ounce of cheese its package promises, if not the recommended daily allowance of calcium. |
| 30 |
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
You've got to figure that it doesn't bode well for Knight Rider given the fact its human stars--which also include Sydney Tamilia Poitier, Paul Campbell, Bruce Davison and Yancy Arias--are eclipsed by computerized graphics and an emotionless hunk of sleek metal. |
| 30 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
["Gary Unmarried"] has lots of laughs. But not as many as tonight’s episode of the new Knight Rider. |
| 30 |
Slate Troy Patterson
Knight Rider arrives tricked out with just enough eccentricity to avoid utterly craven stupidity. |
| 25 |
New York Post Adam Buckman
You've heard of artificial intelligence? How about no intelligence, which is the sum total of what went into transforming a 1980s TV show nobody cares about into a new, updated version nobody will watch. |
| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport
I'd be inclined to dismiss this as lighthearted children's fare, like David Hasselhoff's original "Knight Rider" from the '80s, but the violence, dialogue and skin shown on this version aren't exactly kid-friendly. Not even kids should have to suffer through this, though. Here's hoping KITT and crew get booted. |
| 25 |
Newsday Verne Gay
Knight Rider is a disaster, a remake so deliriously and delectably bad that you have to watch just to tell your grandchildren that you were there. |
| 25 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Seldom has a major network launched a show boasting as many terrible performances or jaw-dropper moments as this premiere. |
| 20 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
Russo tries to pick up the gaping chasm of slack and get a little energy going, but she just looks embarrassed to be yelling at a car, arguing with a car, flirting with a car, whatever. |
| 20 |
Variety Brian Lowry
The "Knight Rider" revival movie set the bar low in terms of expectations, and damned if the series premiere still doesn't go skidding under it. Frankly, this convoluted hour sent me scurrying to NBC's website looking for clarification about the plot, but--whew, what a relief--there really isn't much of one. |
| 20 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Everything--the characters, the action--seems stubbornly flat. |
| 20 |
Chicago Tribune
[An] almost hilariously cheesy remake of the David Hasselhoff original. |
| 10 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The real problem with the new Knight Rider, though, isn't that it's stupid (again, it's a show about a guy and his talking car) or that Bruening's terrible (the Hoff would be the first to say he's no master thespian). It's that it's a show whose time has long passed. |
| 10 |
Time James Poniewozik
They truly do not make them like this anymore. And thank God for that. |
| 10 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Knight Rider, a remake that stays true to the awfulness of the original. It's so bad it's good, in a bad way. |
| 10 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Knight Rider is nothing more than car porn. |
| 0 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
I'm paying a bounty of $5 per vicious blow administered to the heads of any NBC executive involved in any way with Knight Rider, which cost me an hour of my life and 50 IQ points that I'll never get back. |
| 0 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's the kind of bad that sells cheese or gets entertainment presidents fired--one or the other, or both. |
