Vashirdfel
Simply A Masterpiece
UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
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I love the Riddick movies.. This bizarre planet, the creatures, the mysteriousness of Riddick and him narrating parts of it. They have their own brand of uniqueness, it has it's own environment, much like Startrek and Stargate, had their whole own universe..(I'm certainly not comparing this to above franchises. This one isn't as 'abstract' as the others. It kind of filled in our understanding of Riddick a bit more and the world he lives in.. There were some small bits of humor, and light-heartedness. Plenty of strong action, and violence. The supporting actors contributed also. Every once in a while, you get a hint, Riddick, might have some other powers, strengths, we are not aware of yet. If you liked the previous Riddick, this is more, slightly different, you won't be dis-appointed.. I hope Vin Diesel continues to make a couple more sequels..
said-buet10
If you liked Pitch Black you will like this.The story is again written in the original structure of 'Pitch Black' after taking a messy detour with 'The Chronicles of Riddick'. This coupled with some good action and common badass nature of Riddick resulted in a decent sci-fi flick.The direction and over all making is good. CGI is significantly better as we should expect from this time period.The casting I must say was pretty good. The actors playing all those heartless mercenaries were so good at their roles that this easily became a very likable solid action movie. And Riddick with his one liners and almost ridiculously planned schemes is too impressive to say the leastI personally have some issues with the third act of the movie but even with that this is a good action movie. I would easily recommend this to the action lovers.
NateWatchesCoolMovies
Being a huge fan of the two previous Riddick films, I was overjoyed to hear that Vin Diesel would be raiding his own couch for change to save up in order to make this R rated follow up, still helmed by David Twohy. It's reassuring that in a franchise with more than a few haters, Diesel has the passion and ambition for his character to go out of his way in bringing this to fans. Not to mention what a kick ass, gnarly little space yarn it turned out to be. Pitch Black was a claustrophobic horror fest set on a single harsh world, and The Chronicles Of Riddick opened up into a vast galactic space opera. This one reigns it in closer again (partly because of budget, I would imagine) and gets back to the roots established in Pitch Black. After defeating the Necromongers and becoming their King, Riddick is betrayed and sent into exile by the treacherous Lord Vaako (Karl Urban in a brief but memorable reprisal). Cast out into the stars with a ship running low on fuel, he finds himself marooned on a small, deadly planet that's more challenging than any other he has found himself on (and if you remember, he has been to some hellish little nooks in the past). This world is a dry, acrid rock where every form of wildlife seems to be incredibly lethal, and out to get him. The first half of the film is pure genius, and consists of Riddick playing Survivorman with his environment, battling aliens and elements and befriending a small hell-pup type doggo that grows up into a teeth and claw ridden killing machine that is at one point referred to as a 'dingo dango thing'. This is where it's at for the film, and as soon as the more generic second half arrives, the air gets a bit stale, but it's still heaps of fun. After mastering the terrain and ingeniously dispatching a snakelike alien that seems to have wandered right in from Wolfgang Petersen's Enemy Mine (practical effects POWER), he encounters trouble of the human variety, in the form of bounty hunters. Two teams of outlaws have arrived to claim him: the stern Boss Johns (Matt Nable) who has an old bone to pick with Riddick, and the psychotic A-hole Santana (Jordi Molla, who I think of as the Latin Gary Oldman). They bicker a whole bunch on who gets the prize, unknowingly being infiltrated and messed up by the guy before they've barely landed. Katee Sackhoff is nutso awesome as Dahl, a lesbo tough chick who legit has the line "I don't f*ck guys, but occasionally I f*uck them up." Soon there's more charming wildlife, this time in droves of shrieking reptilian predators who intend to see each of them, Riddick included, dead. This forces an amusingly unstable team-up from all forces to battle the uglies and escape this godforsaken place. It's giddy sci-fi pulp good times, and benefits from its hard R rating, something which the other two films never had on their side. Diesel was born to play Riddick, the growling teddy bear, and I hope he gets to continue wearing the goggles for more of these movies, indefinitely if possible. A hell of a great time.
imdb-neweyes
To be frank, I like this movie much better than Pitch Black. The reason is, that I find the characters much more interesting.I never liked the young Jones in Pitch Black. The new villain Santana and the older Jones are much more interesting. I even like Dahl. The other characters are the standard typical Mercs (with one exception, though also not interesting either -- every Riddick movie needs a religious man, it seams) ... nothing to remember here.The story, to be frank is basically a copy of Pitch Black with some different CGI. Maybe they thought, that if it worked once, let it do the job twice. The plot is simply rather dull and predictable from the beginning. Even the ending is very disappointing (I read somewhere, that the directors cut version shall give a little more ... but not much).Some plot holes are there also - for example two ships with top SciFi-equipment that shall detect any movement, but Riddick seams to be able to move without detection everywhere ... no hinting, why or how. Again Riddick is just without physical limits ... for me, a little to implausible, but who cares ...At least some cool lines and watchable interactions between the people -- I found it more interesting than Pitch Black.
