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List Price: $4.99 | | Label: Braun Media
Salesrank: 71806
Released: February 14, 2006 |
| Our Price: $2.28 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A paranoid leisure-suit wearing common gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then murders them.
Impulse Reviews:
Shat attack! 
2009-09-15 - So is Shatner really that bad? Yes and No. In other words, it's not all his fault. With the exception of Ruth Roman, the supporting cast are rubbish. Even worse is the production itself. They must have blown their budget on Shatner's wardrobe! LOL The nighttime shots (in full daylight) were particularly embarrassing. It's almost so bad it's good. Except it's not. It's just bad.
Nor does the title help. Impulse? The impulse to dress like a pimp and sell fraudulent stocks? But the alternate titles ("I Love to Kill" and "Want a Ride, Little Girl?") are no better. Even the title credits suck.
Have you seen Director William Grefe's film history at IMDB? just yikes.
So if you can appreciate the kind of role Shatner was born to play (the good, the bad, and the ugly!), then try to get a copy of Impulse. Or if you're a fan of low budget horror films, then you'd probably enjoy it, too. Otherwise don't bother.
As for the disc itslf, it's as cut-rate as the movie. No menu! Just pop it in your DVD player and the movie starts to play. Reminds me of the good old days of VCRs. My disc is the Braun Media release (2006). For some reason amazon is listing this with an incept date of 1975, but Impulse actually came out a year earlier. Nor is it clear why the other one here (the Tango Entertainment release) has a different run time: 90 vs. 82 minutes.
I'm giving it 2 stars because it stands as a beacon of mid-70s sleaze. I feel like to need to take a shower even after talking about the movie!
A Delightfully Bad Piece of 1970s Sleaze With The Shat-Man!! 
2008-02-21 - Hello fans of 1970s sleaze. This masterpiece stars Bill Shatner as a sleazy, cheesy, con man that hits on the older ladies and takes their money. From the Shat's rotten hairpiece down to the Boeing 747 wingpan collars on those happenin' shirts, this movie is awseome...lee bad!! There is an "ick" factor in this movie that you really can't shake off. The whole movie looks like it was filmed using the old family Super 8 film camera. I wanted to spray my eyes with Lysol when it was over!! I could not look away...I had...to...watch this movie...You cannot... deny...the IMPUSLE!! (Cool belly dancer in the opening credits.)
The film Shatner would rather not have you know about...and for good reason! 
2008-01-20 - The early 70's were lean times for Bill Shatner and now just a distant memory for the award-winning actor who has now trumped another success as Danny Crane on the popular series "Boston Legal." With "Star Trek" cancelled in 1969, it's five year voyage conveniently trimmed to only three courtesy of NBC, Shatner was out of work, his (first) marriage was on the rocks, and clearly, the actor who is now so identified with the role of Captain Kirk, needed to expand his acting chops.
This film, and perhaps the obscure and eerie "Incubus" (1966), and filmed in the language of Esperanto, are the two oddest films Shatner had ever acted in.
Outside of infrequent guest starring roles on popular TV dramas like "Columbo" and the "Six Million Dollar Man," "Impulse" is a textbook example to all would-be actors that although your aspirations may climb to O'Neill on the Broadway stage, we all have to eat, and sometimes, we have to take what we can get.
This brings us to this Florida-made cheapie about a emotionally disturbed, leisure-suited conman/gigolo named Matt Stone who, posing as an "investment broker" seduces lonely women, bilks them for their savings, and then kills them. When he begins to date an attractive widow, her daughter, Tina, begins to suspect Matt's motives.
Fans of Shatner will find the film a howl--his overacting and facial expressions notwithstanding, much less the hilarious 70's fashions Shatner finds himself wearing--acres of polyester and and shirts with collars that entertain the proportions of a wing on a Boeing 747! Directed by William Grefe, it has all the makings of a lackluster made-for-tv melodrama. The director should get some points, however, for the ironic twist effectively linking together the "accidental" murder at beginning of the movie (shot in sepia) and Matt's demise at the end of the film.
Be warned: the transfer to DVD is very poor especially when viewed on anything more than a 40 inch plasma or LCD television. Ruth Roman, a popular b-actress from the 40's and 50's, (She was Farley Granger's love lover in Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train") also stars in the film as well as Harold Sakata (Oddjob from 007's "Goldfinger") and Shatner's second wife to be, Marcy Lafferty, in a minor role as a hotel desk clerk Matt has an affair with.
LIKE A HERPES SIMPLEX THIS MOVIE JUST WON'T GO AWAY 
2008-01-01 - A movie that ranks highly on my list of things never to be found dead in a ditch with. It's sublimely awful and mesmerizing at the same time.
It's Shatner-vana for cheese fans!
2006-09-22 - This movie is peppered with Shatner being more Shatner than ever, and everyone I see it with has a great time of it! From the double-finger-point to the line about dog food to "Big -- tough -- broad -- aren'tcha," this movie is a gem for Shatner's top-quality hamminess.
The plot is totally stupid, but who cares? This movie is a blast to watch!
