Nick Knight
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Movie Reviews of Nick Knight
Movie Review: A vampire -cop who would of thought?
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this pilot when it came and looked forward to the series. The series was okay. The series Moonlight makes for the bad taste left in one's mouth (no pun intended) for the series Nick Knight became.Movie Review: Nick Knight Revisited
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched it live twice and taped it back in the day. I kept rerunning the tape until it wore out. It's still just as enjoyable today.
Movie Review: Nick Knight
Summary: 4 Stars
It was a pretty good vampire movie considering when it was made and Rick Springfield ia a doll in it as usual.Movie Review: Get the Forever Knight DVDs instead.
Summary: 3 Stars
Greetings, people. I saw this DVD for five bucks while at the grocery store of all places, and recognized the name Nick Knight as the name of our hero from Forever Knight, hereafter known as "FK." I hadn't heard of this movie, although FK was my favorite by far of the Crimetime after Primetime vehicles back in the day. Five bucks, what the heck, so I picked it up. I figured it out, this must have been the pilot for the series.First of all I like FK very much, and therefore was comparing it to FK and being very hypercritical toward it. I do have to say that everyone in the movie did a capable acting job in my opinion, although I am no authority in this department.
I've got nothing against Rick Springfield, he did a good job. I liked the part at the beginning in the tanning booth, in fact I think they who made this movie should have made hime spend a few minutes in the booth where his angst would build, maybe with a flashback to being caught out in the sun starting to self-combust. I know why they didn't. They want you to not know that he's a vamp, but to figure it out from the clues. But they contradicted themselves in this line of reasoning here, because everyone who watches it already knows anyway, because this story is advertized as the story of the vampire detective, and they themselves are the ones who advertized it as such.
But I have to say, the sound quality is truly pathetic. And this is a DVD no less, friends. Couldn't they have cleaned up the sound a bit for us? No, evidently not! I had to turn the volume all the way up to 11 to catch what the people in the movie were saying, then the static and other noise was unbearable. Also I didn't like the vampire makeup in this version. The visual quality isn't too good either, although the DVD of the 1st season of FK also doesn't have very good visual quality, maybe the master tapes are bad.
While I'm sure that the actor who plays Nick's confidante the medical examiner is a nice guy, I think the idea of having Dr. Nathalie Lambert in FK is a much better idea, because as we all know vampires are supposed to be sexy and sexual tension (or tension of any kind) of an ongoing nature between characters makes for more riveting drama. That tension is lacking here, except for that between Nick and the museum lady, and Nick and Janette (who is smoldering in FK, but more on that later.)
The LaCroix we see here (ditto about the actor being a nice guy) seems to me to be more like a human baddie than one of the Undead. His voice and look remind me more of a human gangster (from the 70's, not the 20's) with a much too serious mien than the timeless (ok, 2000 year-old) evil vampire with the sick, twisted, but funny sense of humor and irony that Nigel Bennet has bequeathed to us, the FK faithful.
I also think this version falls short of FK in that to my memory, there are no flashbacks to take you back with Nick into his past to really remind you that he is older than he looks, and that he is more then the (in this cas L.A.) detective he appears to be, but rather a product of several lifetimes of experiences.
I like Janette in FK much better, as well as Captain Stonetree from Season 1 of FK, because they each seem to have more personality than their respective counterparts in this version.
Oh well, since this eventually led to FK, I am glad that it was made. But since FK is so much better, I can't under normal circumstances recommend it. Get this only if you really want to have it to compare to FK, or you're a Rick Springfield fan, or something like that. Otherwise, stick with just the FK DVD.
As Skanke would say, Ciao.
Movie Review: Forever Knight Version 1.0
Summary: 3 Stars
Made three years before "Forever Knight", "Nick Knight" was an earlier attempt at filming the pilot for this series. "Nick Knight" is almost scene-for-scene identical (clearly they used the same script and only made minor changes) to the pilot of "Forever Knight" (which is included in Forever Knight - The Trilogy, Part 1 (1992 - 1993) as episodes 1 and 2), except with a lower budget and different actors. I saw both pilots within a week of each other and although neither is brilliant, I considered "Nick Knight" to be the better of the two. The acting in "Nick Knight" is far and away better than that in "Forever Knight", in particular, Rick Springfield makes a far better Nick (the troubled vampire turned detective) than Geraint Wyn Davies. The scene in which he sits down to a goblet of warm blood as if it were a cup of hot chocolate is priceless.
I recommend this movie to all "Forever Knight" fans, if only to see how the series could have been.