Our friend Riddick is stuck on an arid,
inhospitable planet again the silly fool. Stuck fending for his life against
hostile wildlife and some rough mercenaries. Again. But Riddick, being the best
and alien (a species called ‘Furyan’), haunts them and hunts them; but there is
a far greater threat out there waiting for the darkness to fall. Yes the third
Riddick film peddles almost exactly the same material as Pitch Black. Of
course it’s David Twohy who writes and directs again although this time he and
Vin Diesel are without the financial backing of Universal – they shelved the
original plan for a Riddick trilogy after the tepid reviews for the second The
Chronicles Of Riddick.
The first act of Riddick is narrated
by the eponymous anti-hero in film noir stylee; he recounts his downfall as
Lord Marshal (after Chronicles) and how he has come to be marooned with his
terrible festering wounds. The second is concerned with the bounty hunters and
their attempts at capturing Riddick. Truly the screenplay is awful, riddled
with cringe inducing dialogue drivel – as scripts often are when trying to
introduce some bad-guy familiar ‘banter’. The third act sees the incoming
darkness and the monsters that follow – how they let a chained Riddick loose to
help them.
So basically it is Pitch Black
except not as good – the original had claustrophobia, an unknown threat and
diverse characters. This has none of these qualities. The eyes are still menacingly cool though.
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