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Pitch Black (2000)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 26th, 2007
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Diesel fueled
This movie has a strange haze to its cinematography that takes a little getting used to. However, I can't imagine having to get used to the darkness that eventually settles in on a group of passengers that have crash landed on a deserted planet.
One of the passengers is a highly dangerous criminal being guarded by a suspicious bounty hunter. It is where we are first introduced to Vin Diesel and in this role he is the most perfectly suited. Before we learned that his voice wasn't an annoying low level that couldn't be altered to save his chrome-domed life, it worked with the character of Riddick. It made him scarier and more threatening. As well as having the bizarre set of eyes and the shaved head, this was a role that should have been easy enough for anyone to pull off, but in the back of your head you know that it was meant to be tackled by Diesel.
As the crash survivors discover that the planet is going to be closed off in total darkness and that creatures that only come out at night are going to eviscerate them in the nastiest ways possible, you start to sweat right along side them. It's a movie that should have sucked. It had all of the elements: a low budget, mainly unknown actors and a lead character that could have come off as laughable.
Yet it works. It's scary, it's suspenseful, it's damn entertaining.
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