Riddick

nice movie

After trying to move the character to more epic levels in Chronicles of Riddick, and failing to capture an audience, this third installment in the series, simply titled Riddick, is a return-to-basics for director David Twohy. It quickly sets itself loose from the baggage of Chronicles and pursues a more clear-cut survival action story that might as well be titled Pitch Black 2.

Maybe you're all scared of the wrong thing.

Unsurprisingly reactions to this, the third outing for Vin Diesel's sci-fi based anti-hero, has been very mixed. In truth it's hardly a great film of the "must see" kind, and it does in fact cleave very close to Pitch Black, the first and most superior of the Riddick trilogy. However, there's a whole bunch of science fiction fun to be had here.

Plot has Riddick left for dead on a inhospitable planet, where he finds himself up against some alien creatures. His only hope of getting off the planet is to bring notice of his whereabouts, which brings two ships to where he is. Both with crews who have differing reasons for wanting to capture the enigmatic convict...

And thus we get a beautifull...

(Note: This review is of the theatrical version, I have seen the uncut version and it is an improvement, but have not reviewed that edition)

In this latest incarnation, Riddick goes boldly goes where no previous entry has gone before: Nowhere.

Say what you will about the previous film (Chronicles of Riddick) at least it had the guts to take some risks. Sure, almost all of those ended up being complete misfires, but they were still taken. Riddick on the other hand plays it safe. Its a path not entirely without benefit, but one that was not expected from the series spawned by Australian cult-classic Pitch Black.

Shoot me for saying it but Im actually a huge fan of Davind Twohy (_The Arrival, Waterworld, G.I. Jane, A Perfect G...

The third Pitch Black film "Riddick" is much more focused than its predecessor and a welcome return to the formula that worked so well for the original movie. Riddick is a bad-ass survivalist fighting an extinction level event that threatens everybody, with an assembly cast that is colorful and fun to watch.