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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
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Bigger isn't always better, but for anyone who enjoyed Pitch Black, a nominal sequel like The Chronicles of Riddick should prove adequately entertaining. Writer-director David Twohy returns with expansive sets, detailed costumes, an army of CGI effects artists, and the star he helped launch--Vin Diesel--bearing his franchise burden quite nicely as he reprises his title role. The Furian renegade Riddick has another bounty on his head, but when he escapes from his mercenary captors, he's plunged into an epic-scale war waged by the Necromongers. A fascist master race led by Lord Marshal (Colm Feore), they're determined to conquer...
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The Chronicles of Riddick Movie Review by Zara  (3/22/2007) |
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PITCH BLACK was a good enough movie on its own. That is, it was as good as a movie of that type is going to get and it did quite fine. Expanding on the tale (and quite a while after the first was made) with this sequel was an exercise in... I don't know what.
The cool things about the movie are simple. Judy Dench getting...
(complete The Chronicles of Riddick review by Zara)
| The Chronicles of Riddick Movie Review by AJ (4/17/2006) |
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Pitch Black, despite its flaws, was an entertaining little Alien-esque thriller. I also think that Vin Diesel is very underrated; yes, he's in many bad movies, but give him something to work with, and he's superb (an operative example being his small yet superb role in Saving Private Ryan). Unfortunately, The Chronicles of...
(complete The Chronicles of Riddick review by AJ)
| The Chronicles of Riddick Movie Review by Thom (9/2/2007) |
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The Chronicles of Riddick is not going to be vying for any Academy awards, but then that's got nothing to do with why this movie was made or why it's so much fun to watch. The fact is, no protagonist in any Oscar winning movie has ever so unabashedly kicked this much ass.
Cobbled together from a half dozen or so sci-fi...
(complete The Chronicles of Riddick review by Thom)
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