The only thing that saves the movie from getting a lower score, is Riddick.

I found it mostly boring and tedious. Vin Diesel is a horrible actor, but he can't muscle his way this film. Towards the end it gets really interesting, but that first hour and a half feels like a millenium. Pitch Black is a better film. Wait untill this one comes out to rent before viewing it. You'll be disappointed if you pan out nine bucks to see it in the movie theater.

I went in expecting a subpar movie and that's exactly what i got. then why did see it; i guess for curiosity purposes. if you liked "Pitched Black" you may perhaps very well enjoy this film. Comparing the two, CoR is a much better film in having a much more expansive storyline and the cgfx was quite decent. Vin Deisel may not have delivered oscar-winning acting, but provided enough action and that's all you should expect from any muscle-headed actor. the movie SEEMED unusually long, but i believe it was under 2h. that should imply something about the movie from an entertainment perspective. for a moment, i thought the film would abruptly end (because it was dragging on so long), and a third installment would be filmed, but i was surpised that they actually fit the whole movie into this film. if you've watched this you may now what i mean. so if you decide to watch this, do not be critical or you'll end up having a bad time and have wasted money. instead, view with an open-mind to fullfill curiosity as i have. i have no regrets, but i still won't praise this movie.… Expand

I think Mardy R. needs to learn what satire is. He is sarcasticly criticizing the film by dumbly saying how good it is. Good wit Josh, Mardy is a dumby. Unless he knew that, in which case he'd be in on the joke...anyway, the movie is spastic space opera that could have been great if only it could hadn't been incomprehensible, pretentious, unoriginal, inanely told, cheerlessly capricious, horribly rendered dark and smudgy, underwritten. If "Pitch Black" was a mediocre Alien clone, consider this to me a monstrous retarded DNA strand of Aliens.… Expand

I was expecting better as I am a fan of Pitch Black. As with most sequels spurred on by unexpected success of the original, Riddick is pretty substandard. The beauty of Pitch Black was the isolation from the world. This has Riddick dealing with the very survival of the universe and all that. A race of halfdeads that conquers other worlds? Not very original - ala the Borg. For some reason, it kept reminding me of Battlefield Earth, which is not good.… Expand

I give this movie a 3 for very good special effects and Vin Diesel. Not to say the guy is Olivier or Pacino, but he has the "IT" quality that very few American action stars have, like The Rock. The guy is utterly watchable and he plays his role here with conviction. This movie on the otherhand suffers from the "Van Helsing" syndrome...i.e. lethargic pacing, goes on too long, nonstop dull and repetitive action scenes, etc. I mean honestly people how many of you can take watching more bad guys shooting guns at the good guys, them fighting each other, punching each other into the ground, and all that. If you are looking for a good action movie that is entertaining without being completely dull and repetitive, try Troy.… Expand

It is like XENA, but in future. Effects are great, but why the heck everybody is fighting with spears and knifes, when they have laser guns etc. And also armor - wow its kinda cool, very useless and you can see that it is not comfortable. Pitch black was good sci-fi, but Chronicles are bad fantasy movie.

It had iight action but overall the movie sucked!!

Vin diesel's voice and presence can sell ice to eskimos and raincoats to african bushmen perhaps but even he cannot salvage this film from being a flop. one of the reasons for this is that this film has no story, but if you think cool looking outfits and spaceships count as a story; then we differ in opinion and you shall enjoy yourself. the direction of this movie is one of the very worst i have seen. the cameras are doing close ups almost the entire film, not only giving us motion sickness but we cannot see what the hell is going on either. the reality is...nothing is going on, at least give us a larger view of nothing rather than an enlarged one. the director thinks that a woman in a prison should be sexy and lara croftesque...he thinks she will balance diesel well, he is wrong again; the heroine makes childish evil faces and shows skin to grab our respect and love...it truns into a stupid mess mainly because she cannot act and her whole persona doesn't make any sense. vin diesel looks very tired in the film from start to finish, he lacks the awesome spurkyness he delivered in his movie "xxx", maybe because they used blue-screens which made him confused or maybe he did not have any idea what the hell was going on either (like the audience). whatever the case, he blew this one big. could have been a far better film because it seems the art department did their homework and made some cool things here and there...oh well, here goes a multi million in to the bottomless pit. this movie is a good example of the absence of filmmakings first rule SCRIPT!!!!!!!… Expand

This film is hilarious! It's too bad they didn't bill it as a comedy. Riddick suffers from poor acting, an unbelievable story, bad set and costume design, uninspiring music and, it would seem, even bad directing. Ignore the Variety quote ... this film is worse than Battlefield Earth in every way except special effects.

Vin Diesel completionists need only see this film. It's a mess. The plot is pretty much non-existent and there is NO character development whatsoever. So much is left unexplained and the fight scenes are choppy and shot too close up. Vin Diesel has the emotional delivery of a baked potato. Hell, why not just replace him with one? They look pretty much the same.

Vin Diesel glowers behind his dark goggles; vin diesel is charitable enough to his legion of fans to speak a few lines of dialogue; vin deisel dices up the baddies like only a fame-crazed non-talent can. the story ? well, vin deisel kills, flexes his body-by-jake in various poses, and ends up lording over a cgi-universe that has been passed around since the late 1970s. the whole film is tailored like a candy bar with all too specific demographic in mind. ouchy. … Expand

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

Any sentence with the term "Necromonger" is automatically funny and/or stupid. You keep waiting for the next exchange of dialogue, because the difference between bad writing and bad action, is that the former can be entertaining. Incredibly, the gap between the last two Matrix sequels and this Vin Diesel vehicle, isn't that wide, since both franchises are weak in narrative, are darkly lit, have capable actors defeated by silly costumes, and contain no character development that could lead to a laugh or two, or even a smile. You can't cite Van Diesel's skills as an actor for the film's failure to work, not with Judy Dench flickering all over the place and Thandie Newton having her Thandie Newton qualities blanched out by the modern screenplay, the screenplay by committee. David Twohy directed the underrated "The Arrival". … Expand

Boom! Boom! Bang! Stab! Slice! Punch! this review is as good as the film.

It takes more than vague references to historical (holocaust) and contemporary (Iraq) disasters to make a great film. It takes more than a charismatic lead to make a great film. It takes more than huge CGI backdrops to make a great film. As such, this is definitely not a great film. In fact, it's not even an OKAY film. Twohy's original lo-fi masterpiece has been completely eclipsed by Vin Diesel's ego-maniacal insistance on turning the genuinely brilliant one-off Pitch Black into a big-budget franchise. Maybe it's just sour grapes after he lost the Fast/Furious and xXx gigs... Hollywood doesn't like a smart alek and somebody is getting too big for his damn boots.… Expand

Admittedly this movie is only intended as a bit of mindless summer fun--well, they got the mindless part right anyway! I'm not sure which was my most favorite part, the fact that the Necromongers had the technology to wipe out the defenses of entire planets in moments but couldn't seem to deal with a guy who had--gasp--a knife (well, admittedly, it did have a curved blade), or the scene on planet Crematoria with the sunrise that superheated the planet's surface into a boiling cauldron of fire and ash only survivable if you--wait for it--crouched behind a big rock! I give it one point for the look of the sets which was faintly reminiscent of the old Flash Gordon movies.… Expand

Wow. This movie is really, really, really crap. A laughable story, a stupid ending and some of the worst special effects I have seen in a film for some time. What the heck were they thinking!?!?!? ARGH! I want my money back...

Riddick feels all but the same way every video game adaptation feels, action packed without a point but to copy the video game. To add on to that, it makes the sci-fi thriller Pitch Black look silly.

Nothing to say about this trash.

I loved "Pitch Black". I would have given it at least a 9. This film, which is supposed to be the sequel to "Pitch Black" is an utterly stupid, laughable science fiction that never makes any sense. I pretty much hated this film. Nothing was useful in this film. Vin Diesel was annoying and bitter. Judi Dench is the strongest performer in the movie and even she lacks substance in her character. Dumb, utterly dumb!… Expand

Worst sci-fi film I have ever seen. There comes a point where you can't figure out what's going on and the bad new is, you don't care. Way too long.

One word...SUCKS.

I think Josh C. needs to visit Cremetoria in the day time, and have a good talk with the Necromongers. Vin foo evah, P-E-A-C-E!