SummaryVin Diesel reprises his star-making Pitch Black role of enigmatic anti-hero Richard B. Riddick in this science fiction action-adventure epic. [Universal Pictures]
SummaryVin Diesel reprises his star-making Pitch Black role of enigmatic anti-hero Richard B. Riddick in this science fiction action-adventure epic. [Universal Pictures]
This is one of the best movies I ever saw but I really enjoy fresh Sci Fi stories... I have no idea why some many people hate it not only most can't even say what they hate.
I saw this before watching Pitch Black... I love the Anti-Hero and father figure of Riddick and the Charm from both Karl Urban and Vin Diesel bring is amazing.
The story progression and passing is nail to perfection for me, in total they go to 3 unique worlds, the action and visual in all of these are fresh and unique.
The one liners are so satisfying and cool and the acting is pretty spot on from everyone, very well cast.
The Necromongers is probably the best sci fi species and society I have read.. mysticism, honor, religion, devotion, sacrifice, brutally they are a sort of spartan medieval crusader knight.
And the music is incredible thematic and goes incredible well with the movie despite that it even stands on it's on I have the album.
This is certainly of the more unique and fresh SciFi I have saw on my life.
Chronicles of Riddick is half cheesy, brawny adventure and half … something else. That something else involves a lot of leather, bondage, studded armor and heavy machinery.
Not since John Travolta sprouted a head of dreadlocks and strapped on platform boots for "Battlefield Earth" has cinematic science fiction been such good-bad fun as in The Chronicles of Riddick.
critics, you ****. Just saying, you know... this is not ok. This movie is completely awesome! Everything in it amazes me! Riddick is so bad ass! And I just... wow. This critics really need to think better.
The things you watch during a lockdown. I would give this a 1 but you have to admire the audacity of making a film like this that borrows so liberally from past science fiction classics, namely Dune and Blade Runner, and pass it off as something original. Of course you can blame Alan Dean Foster for the gross plagiarism. Twohy merely adapted this twaddle to the screen, throwing in a few Chinese flying kicks for good measure.
What you get is a very low grade science fiction adventure that looks like something from the early 80s. I'm shocked by the $120 million budget. It looks like something you could have made for $5 mil. I could only marvel that Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, and Dame Judi Dench would attach themselves to what is essentially a Vin Diesel vehicle, although he looks just as badly out of place in his cheap black goggles and tank top. There's no point telling the plot as it is so predictable you will figure out how it ends within the first few minutes. You watch it only to fill time, however two hours feels like ten given the lugubrious pace of this so-called action yarn. As a game, this might be fun to play. At least you can manipulate the outcome a little. Here you are at the mercy of the director.
If there is any saving grace to this mess it is the fetching Alexa Davalos. You would like to see much more of her, but alas this is a Vin Diesel vehicle so you have to put up with his hulking image throughout, as he tries to protect Kyra from the evil clutches of the Lord Marshall. Seems like Colm Feore really beefed himself up for the role, either that or he had a great costume designer.
I understand there is a vast market for this nonsense, but can't we be a little more imaginative?
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.