I cannot help but to think of the evil Captain Kirk in the Star Trek TOS: Mirror, Mirror. I'm sorry but that is what runs through my mind seeing this film. If you want to see a good slasher film with William Shatner the I recommend Visiting Hours (1982) - that is a good movie to me! Yes I love Bill Shatner but I could not sit though Impulse. It's just too lame and awful for me to sit an 1 1/2 hours forcing myself to watch it. I wish I could but life is too short for that and there are other great films to watch - including one's with The Shat! Yes the film is funny - because it's hard to see Bill in this role. But it's just not "him" so I have problems with watching it. And the fact the film is just overall bad no matter who played the role of Matt Stone.The film gets one extra point from me just for The Shat! 2/10

This is a genuine, hilarious little shocker! William Shatner plays a swindling conman, a total ladies man and a deranged psychopath all rolled up into the character of Matthew Stone. See him run around in the most outrageously flashy outfits. See him loose control and spontaneously kill people. See him act like an idiot. See him pick up hitchhiking little girls and run over dogs. He's so on top of his game here, that he lost it. Over the edge, and he's clearly having a great time at it. And best of all, "Impulse" features a handful of terrific, long drawn-out murder sequences. Occasionally weird camera angles, strange flashback sequences, goofy voice-overs and a funkadelic soundtrack to boot. All's pretty nuts about this flick. Can't figure out if this is a genius work of '70s shock & schlock cinema or just bad-to-the-bone filmmaking myself. Either way, worth checking out for obscure trash connoiseurs.

I came across a VHS copy of this movie by mistake several years ago, at has become one of my most treasured possessions! As far as I'm concerned, everyone should own a copy of this great film!!! Starring William Shatner as the killer and Ruth Roman of THE BABY(1974, another classic B movie!) as the rich widow this movie has everything going for it. The clothes, the slow-speed car chase through the car wash, the editing, the opening graphics, the still shots of Shatner, the acting from Shatner is so "intense", tears of laughter still stream down my cheeks each time I watch it! (I've seen it at least 50 times, and will watch it at least 100 more times, if I can help it!) I only wish it would be released on DVD!

After finally finding a copy, I was afraid I would be disappointed when seeing this, following all the great things I had read about the non-stop unintentional hilarity/stupidity. Luckily, my fear proved baseless. This movie is as stupid and hilarious as described; in fact, in may even be more so. I have never seen a performance as hilarious as Shatner's in this movie - not even in a comedy. We get to see him threaten a park balloon vendor with bodily harm, followed by an informative diatribe about the contents of a commercial hot dog. And that isn't even when Shatner goes really crazy! The only thing we don't see Shatner do is lip-sync a famous song in spoken word; maybe that's just part of some long-lost footage. Every scene with Harold Sakata is hilarious, as well. He just seems to show up randomly in the middle of the movie, as if the director found him wandering around town and then wrote in a part for him on the spot. And Ruth Roman's performance reminded me of an Elizabeth Taylor diamond commercial on acid. If this movie ever does make it to DVD, my greatest wish would be for an informative "making of" featurette, but alas, my wish is for naught, for I know Shatner would just as soon bury this one as talk about it openly. I'd really love to know what went on when filming this, as I have a hunch that the backstory would be highly amusing. As it is, I exhort you to lie, cheat, or steal to find a copy of this. You will not regret it!!Recent Update: I was right! Shatner mentions the making of the movie in his autobiography by describing how he saved Sakata's life while filming Sakata's hanging sequence. The support underneath Sakata malfunctioned during the scene, so Shatner had to hold Sakata up with his bare hands to keep him from choking - actually breaking one of his thumbs. A true gentleman.