Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Space, Futuristic, Aliens, Epic, Betrayal, Murder, Prison, Post-Apocalypse
Tagline: All the power in the universe can't change destiny
Plot: It is a dark time in the universe. Planet after planet is falling to an unholy army of Necromongers -- conquering warriors who offer ravaged worlds a simple choice -- convert or die. Those who refuse their rule hope in vain for someone or something that will slow the spread of Necromongers. But rebels are short-lived and saviors, its seems, are in short supply. When things get bad, weary survivors turn to myths for comfort -- murmured prophecies, vain hopes, legends of good vanquishing evil. But good isn’t always the antidote to evil and legends can be wrong. Sometimes the only way to stop evil is not with good -- but with another kind of evil. So an unlikely figure is summoned from exile and asked to join the fight: Riddick (VIN DIESEL), who couldn’t care less who’s in charge of the universe, just as long as he’s left alone. Since leaving a god-forgotten (and creature-ridden) planet in the Taurus system five years ago, the wanted fugitive hasn’t looked back. Most of his time has been spent evading capture and ghosting whatever mercenaries are on his tail. To him, it’s all the same, apocalypse or no -- this one-man army is interested only in saving his own life. Get in his way and he’ll gladly take yours. But something has been set in motion, and the coming confrontation
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 The film is adequate for those who want to spend a couple more hours with one of the most interesting science fiction characters in recent years, but the story lacks the lean, single-minded focus of Pitch Black, and it suffers because of it.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
This plot-packed "Pitch Black" sequel -- starring, yes, Vin Diesel -- is thoroughly enjoyable, but not because it's any good--Andrew O'Hehir (Salon)
"The Chronicles of Riddick" is above all an exercise in computer-generated effects, and indeed the project represents the direction action movies are taking, as its human actors (or their digital clones) are inserted into manifestly artificial scenes that look like frames from the darkest of superhero comic books.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ is a science fiction film that has the distinction of attempting to be a combination of two somewhat beloved film/novels: ‘Battlefield Earth’ and ‘The Matrix.’ In combining both, Twohy has somehow made a film that will insteadlikely appeal and be liked by no one once word-of-mouth spreads after a large opening weekend.  --Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
Technically, this is a sequel to Pitch Black, but the tone is drastically different, and the scope is vastly wider. It's been described by the writer and director, David Twohy, as the first chapter in a sort of "dark Star Wars," but other than the space travel and the empirical force threatening the universe, there's little common ground to be found.--'Greg C.' (Movie-Vault.com)
The Chronicles of Riddick stomps onto screens with an attitude that’s somehow both obtuse and far too simplistic.  --Chris Barsanti (FilmCritic.com)
While this movie isn't quite as dark...in more ways than one, than the first one, this is a very good movie for fans of Pitch Black, and for those who think that Vin Diesel just can't act, because they will be proven wrong.  --Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is a Frazetta painting come to rumbly life, albeit with the women actually covered up, and is just about as deep, despite earnest attempts to the contrary.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
Befitting its hoity-toity title, ``Chronicles'' proves as bloated and pretentious as the first installment was grimly single-minded. Indeed, with all its Gothic flourishes and goofy religiosity, it seems like nothing so much as ``Dune'' as it might have been done by Cecil B. DeMille.  --Glenn Lovell (San Jose Mercury News)
...the film moves at a nice clip, the action is kinetic and well dispersed throughout the movie, but a little too "fast" for my taste at times. 7/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
The Chronicles of Riddick carries a backbone of hysterical pomposity unseen since David Lynch's Dune -- huge and gaudy, dripping with self-importance that pleads to be deflated. But director David Twohy brings so many great little touches to the mix thatit's hard not to nod in approval. B--Rob Vaux (Flipsidemovies.com)
This is certainly no sci-fi classic and is but another summer film that is good at its best, but I really think that there is an intriguing story here that I wish we could see play out to its conclusion. 7/10--'The Grim Ringler' (JackassCritics.com)
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Jim Wheat
Pitch Black, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, After Midnight | Ken Wheat
Pitch Black, The Birds II: Land's End, Rattled |
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| Cast |
Vin Diesel
Saving Private Ryan, Pitch Black, The Fast and the Furious |
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 | Thandie Newton
Mission: Impossible II, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, The Truth About Charlie |
 | Judi Dench
Shakespeare in Love, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day |
 | Karl Urban
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Bourne Supremacy |
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 | Keith David
There's Something About Mary, Armageddon, Crash |
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| “The Chronicles of Riddick” is such a dense, gigantically mounted fantasy film that the sheer size of it is impressive enough to recommend. --Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
Working with a budget bigger than the combined totals of practically every other movie he’s ever written or directed, save “The Fugitive,” Twohy comfortably steps up and does an adept job, but still lacks any kind of personal style which makes the film his own.--Edward Havens (FilmJerk.com)
Given the budget of more than $100 million, the film looks surprisingly bad, with heavily borrowed set design and poorly composited green screens.--Ed Owens (CineScene)
...the movie never asks the audience to take it seriously. Here is a filmmaker that has a vision designed to supply his viewers with a good time and nothing else. Anyone who tries to find great depth in this story is straining too hard. --Lee Chase IV (CultureDose.net)
...more than mere ambition is required to pull off something as bombastic and bloated as this without it looking, you know, bombastic and bloated. I kinda liked it, sort of, but then again, not really. C+--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
Overall, "The Chronicles Of Riddick" is what it is -- a big, cheesy sci-fi flick tailor-made for a young male audience looking for things that go boom. It's big, loud and meaningless.--Paul Clinton (CNN Showbiz)
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