Hardly anybody has seen or even heard of “Impulse” and there is a reason for that. You can’t get much cheaper, much sillier and much weirder than “Impulse”, a movie that appears to try and be artistic but ends up being anything but.

In “Impulse”, Matt Stone (William Shatner “Airplane II: The Sequel”) is a severely disturbed man that likes to con women out of their savings and when they’re no longer impressed by him he brutally murders them. His latest victim’s daughter becomes suspicious of Matt and seeks to prove that he’s not the nice guy that her mother has mistaken him for.

William Shatner is known for overacting but he’s also known for making his roles memorable. He does a great job considering the bad script he’s been given and it is a really bad script. No human being could possibly make a good performance out of that script but Shatner at least provides an amusing one. Harold Sakata, who played Oddjob in “Goldfinger” has a small part in the film so it’s surprising to me that this movie managed to bad two relatively famous people on what was obviously a very budgeted picture. Everyone in the film is very pretentious.

“Impulse” is a terrible film by every meaning of the word. It is a strange picture that could have been worked into a good black comedy. The acting is terrible, the film takes itself too seriously and all-round it just is a real mess. What shocked me more than anything is that you can find “Impulse” on DVD (that’s how I found it) and it looks worse than a worn VHS tape. Here’s hoping they don’t resurrect this turkey for Blu-Ray. There is a positive about “Impulse” and it’s the fact once you look upon it, your eyes become fixated on this car crash of a movie no matter what your heart and brain request.