• Starring: Colm Feore, Judi Dench, Vin Diesel
  • Summary: Vin Diesel reprises his star-making Pitch Black role of enigmatic anti-hero Richard B. Riddick in this science fiction action-adventure epic. (Universal Pictures)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 34
  2. Negative: 11 out of 34
  1. Reviewed by: Devin Gordon
    70
    Twohy knows how to shoot tense, bare-knuckle action, and his towering, gunmetal gray world is a fun sandbox to play in for two hours.
  2. Reviewed by: Pete Vonder Haar
    60
    Isn't going to win over the art house crowd, but you could do a lot worse for summer entertainment.
  3. An overblown hodgepodge of volcano-baked desertscapes, Egyptoid-gone-baroque architecture, and gladiator-geared storm troopers with goofy headpieces, The Chronicles of Riddick bears no resemblance to the movie that spawned its namesake.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 79
  2. Negative: 19 out of 79
  1. Though the Riddick films are so under appreciated (it's a crime) I speak for real si-fi fans when I say that the Riddick series (video games included) is one of the greatest series of its genre. Expand
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  2. EonfgeD
    4
    The only thing that saves the movie from getting a lower score, is Riddick.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. JoshE.
    2
    Ludicrously silly to say the least, Chronicles is chock full of terrible dialogue and some of the most laugh inducing names in movie history. I can't imagine someone naming a planet Crematoria and the bad guys Necromongers with a straight face, and not in a total parody or the worst of the worst B movie prodution, but someone surely did here. The sets and costumes look straight out of some kind of bad S&M fantasy and the story itself is just above retarded. It's pretty funny to see the script writers introducing all of these "shocking" habits of the Necromongers but not really explaining any one of them, so they really are meaningless and not that shocking at all since we never really find out what being "half dead and half alive," what being a necromonger, or anything else of what this mess of a movie really means. There are occasional slivers of decent production values in Chronicles, but that's about it. The idea behind Riddick's anti-hero has potential too, but it's also handled pretty poorly. The bad guys look like death metal band members and their women look like vampires godesses or something like that. It's so bad it's funny. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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