The Chronicles of Riddick | | Cast : | Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Judi Dench | | Director : | David Twohy | | Studio : | Universal | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | June 11, 2004 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 30, 2005 | | Summary | This movie is FREAKEN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! | Content
 | This is one of the best sci/fi movies I've seen in years. Its brilliant. There's no other sequal like this one. It totally stands on its own as a movie from the first one Pitch Black. Awesome awesome movie. And like other reviews have said, don't listen to the critics. This movie is awesome. Especially if your into sci/fi movies. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 28, 2005 | | Summary | Really,........ Where Do You Get Eyes Like That ???!!!!!!!! | Content
| Well, Riddick, our favorite dark hero with the freaky eyes and awesome goggles. This movie takes place after the sci fi/horror classic Pitch Black (2000), which first introduces Riddick( Vin Diesel), as he does some serious monster killing!!! From the beggining he is a rogue, a convict and scum of the earth, who is known for breaking out of Butcher Bay(see video game on xbox or pc,.... won't be sorry!!! In the end though he always seems to be the hero.
Unlike "Pitch Black", a sci fi horror survival thriller, "The Chronicles of Riddick", is more like a an straight forward action packed sci fi adventure that has your eyes jumping for joy!!! For any sci fi fan this is a must see especially Director's Cut!!! Riddick has his same old personalty as the tough guy, serial killer mad man, rogue, but with a new enemy called The Necromongers, and their religion, convert or die is their catch phrase, along with keep what you kill,...... as they sweep through the galaxy, unchallenged, well Riddick will stop that and bring them hell to their doorstep!!!
Some critics bombarded complaints about the original version of this movie shown at theatres, just because it didn't make sense ,and they've never seen anything like it!!! Most people, by instinct fear change,.... just think that Elvis, "the king" wasn't always thought highly upon with his new breaking the boundary style, but look at him now, one of the most famous artists of all time!!! What I'm trying to say folks that some people may fear change but, it really doesn't have to be that way!!!
I am a sci fi fan and must say that Riddick is a work of art, and visualy amazing!!! True the original version was flawed in some ways, yet still action packed and great!!! The Director's Cut is a whole new story!!! They've took the original version and have fixed every flaw and have added more to the movie, helping guide the story smoother, telling more about Riddick, and the history of the universe in general, along with some more action, and a great ammount of bonus material, that will please you greatly!!!
If you didn't like the original version, try the Director's Cut, which is a must see!!! You will have fun, as Riddick easil take out mercs, break out a triple max security prision, and give those Necromongers hell!!! Riddick is a Furian, and is predicted to be the one that can stop the Grand Marshal, and the Necromongers reign in blood, forever!!! This movie will have you fearing the dark!!!
The original Chronicles of Riddick is a very good movie, but the Director's Cut is an awesome movie ,along with some great bonus material!!! I will overall give this a 4/5,... it's not the best movie in the world true, but if you love sci fi you will really want to see this!!! "Two Thumbs Up !"!!!!!
You may also want to check out "Dark Fury"(2004) an great animated Riddick feature that will give you more infor mation about Riddick's life, along with the classic "Pitch Black" (2000", where the legend begins!!! If you play video games make sure to check out "Riddick Escape From: Butcher Bay" which is one of the best games ever made graphic and gameplay wise!!!
I think "The Cronicles of Riddick" could have been better, being more of an hardcore sci fi which some people aren't familar with, but heck this is a great movie, slightly rushed and unstable, but still great!!!
-shadow "who cares" (Lord of the Reviews)
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| Rating | | | Date | August 12, 2005 | | Summary | Are you afraid of the Dark? | Content
| Well, no, not really, I'm not. But Riddick's enemies---and by Furia, he has a passle of them in "The Chronicles of Riddick", David Twohy's follow-up to the rousing monster-mash "Pitch Black"---should be. Oh yes indeed.
Riddick (good old shaven-pated Vin Diesel doing his raspy, surly, growly thang), if you remember, is that amoral piece of space-trash, former Level 3 Max-Lockup prisoner, that intergalactic rogue who was all in it for himself, Devil take the hindmost, lead, follow, or get out of the way. Oh, and he had those funky eyes (chiefly covered up by his hip goggles) that fixed the old boy up with nightvision. So when the Going gets Dark, Riddick gets Going.
Boy does he ever: he slices, he dices, he does double flips, he twists and leaps and hurdles, he kicks and tears and shoves blades in just about every possible spot you'd think to shove a blade. So yeah, if I'm facing down Riddick, I'm afraid of the Dark.
It's a few years after the fun wholesome family carnage in "Pitch Black". Riddick has been camped out on the amusingly named UV-6, presumably chasing Taun-Tauns and making snow-angels. Bad boy bounty hunter Toombs shows up, Riddick does his thing, and ends up heading across the galaxy to Helion Prime, to find out exactly why somebody from his past put a very big bounty on his shiny bald head.
Riddick hooks up briefly with his old space-traveling Muslim pal Imam (Keith David, who looks like he's channeling up Malcolm X), and then gets a way impressive introduction to the Galaxy's latest Axis of Evil (they even bring their own Axis): the Necromongers. Convert or Kill, and Keep what you Kill: that's the Necromonger way.
The Necromongers are real party-poopers, by the way. They introduce themselves by crashing their huge phallus-shaped spaceships into your planet, kill or convert everybody, give boring speeches about "verses" (yeah, the Helion Prime people were scared, but when Linus Roache's Necromonger Purifier starts babbling about "other verses" you could see their eyes glaze over...mine did....zzzz...shut up or kill me), then burn the planet to the ground. Their leader, the Lord Marshall (Colm Feore), is also big into boring speeches and zig-zagging around his helpless victims. Show-off.
Not even the hotty Lady Macbeth-like Necromonger princess Dame Vaako (Thandie Newton) has much fun: she works hard at giving her lover/pawn Lord Vaako Karl Urban a spine, and puts her eye-makeup on with a Bic lighter. Blegh.
Can't an old space pirate just find a little hooch and a place to flop? Well, you know what happens when you get between a rogue like Riddick and a hot meal: Riddick does what he does best, which is thrash.
Frankly, I saw "Chronicles" after about a case of very good Laphroaig, and it made no sense; after I sobered up, I saw it again. It still makes no sense. But frankly, that's all good: all I wanted was a movie in which Riddick would snarl, slaughter some foolish mortals, rinse, repeat. I got it!
And the movie is indeed a pretty thing: stuff blows up, Riddick and his buddies run across the prison-planet Crematoria from a really ambitious sun, there are gunfights and massacres and guttings galore, Twohy shows off all the eye-candy at his disposal, and Judy Dench floats around a lot. I still have no idea what she was doing, but hey: the point is, it all looks pretty. It has lots of slaughter. Alexa Davalos (Kyra/Jack) is cute and deadly, always a nice combo.
Diesel's goggles alone should win an Oscar: the man takes them off, shoves them back on, takes them off, and not once does he have to clean 'em! I want a pair.
JSG |
| Rating | | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | Regret not seeing it in the cinema | Content
| Director Twohy fancies himself a bit of an auteur. I wouldn't go that far (Dune/ Farscape, et al) but his idiosyncratic style rather won me over. I'm not sure if the character of Riddick (from Pitch Black) ever justifies the portentious deification Twohy affords him, but the possibly tragic ending is none the less intriguing. Beautifully shot, the story dares to be dark although I fear it may be too lumbering and lugabrious to withstand too many repeat viewings. I do think it was a mistake to recast Jack. The original actress had huge Bambi eyes and it's difficult to connect emotionally with a different actress. Finally, watch out for a cheeky Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer tribute scene. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | Go Vin, Go | Content
| Nice movie, but totally different than Pitch Black.
Pitch Black was more sinister and horror SF. This movie is good action from the begin to the end, wrapped in a SF jacket.
Very nicely done, because although it's so different from it's precessor, it still works. This is SF, what happens on one planet doesn't have to happen on another.
The Director's Cut is big improvement to the theatric release.
Don't watch that again and go straight fot the director's cut. |
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