Don't be afraid of the dark. Be afraid of what's in the dark.
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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“Is Pitch Black better than The Chronicles of Riddick?”
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20257/10
After their ship crashes onto an unforgiving and hostile planet, only a disparate group of eleven folk survive under the command of “Fry” (Radha Mitchell). Trying to galvanise her cohort of ten isn’t going to be easy as these are no ordinary crew. Moreover, with pitch darkness descending over the place - quite an achievement as it has three suns - every twenty-odd hours, and with the indigenous plant life proving to have quite a penchant for human flesh, things look bleak. It might be that their only hope of survival rests with the see-in-the-dark enabled convict “Riddick” (Vin Diesel) but can she trust him to lead them to a shuttle that could get them off this arid world? Can she trust anyone? There are plenty of solid visual effects on display here, but the story has a certain familiar, hybrid, ring to it that anyone who has ever watched “Dr. Who” over the years will recognise. Diesel is an imposing and charismatic actor and he very much owns this, but the rest of the cast - including the dreadful Claudia Black whom I blame, entirely, for ruining “Stargate SG-1” in the end, picking up the slack and hopefully ending up triffid fodder. It is a well paced adventure with plenty going
Read the whole review on TMDB - r96skon TMDB · Apr 20257/10
<em>'Pitch Black'</em> is passable viewing. As a big <em>'Fast & Furious'</em> fan, it was about time I checked out more of Vin Diesel's other work. I had heard of this character of his before, though didn't know a jot about the plot. It turns out it's fairly good, despite minor issues. It has a noticeable low budget/low quality feel to it, the special effects haven't aged beautifully and the acting level is rather mid. Nevertheless, I still did enjoy the creatures and those onscreen do the job. It does attempt quite a bit of sci-fi, so I can respect it. Diesel is effective in the role of Riddick, a character I can certainly see the potential for here. Kinda funny that he co-stars with Cole Hauser, who appears in <em>'2 Fast 2 Furious'</em> - the only F&F flick to not feature Vin. Hauser is solid enough, he does suit this sorta role. Radha Mitchell and Keith David are the best of the others. I'm intrigued to see where they went with <em>'The Chronicles of Riddick'</em> (of course, the film Diesel chose over 2 Fast). I hadn't heard of this one before, though do know of the follow-up... so it must be good, right?
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Jun 20159/10
All you people are so scared of me. Most days I'd take that as a compliment. But it ain't me you gotta worry about now. Pitch Black is directed by David Twohy and collectively written by Twohy and Ken and Jim Wheat. It stars Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Claudia Black and Rhiana Griffith. Music is by Graeme Revell and cinematography is by David Eggby. The year 2000 was awash with sci-fi movies, not all were stellar of course, but siting at the top end of the scale was this, Twohy's super slice of action/horror/sci-fi cake. Right from the off we are thrust on board the cargo ship Hunter-Gratzner, which as it happens is plummeting through space. The ship has been hit by meteorite debris and junior officer Caroline Fly (Mitchell), after coming out of hyper sleep, manages to crash land on a nearby planet. Only a handful of passengers survive the crash, including infamous convict Richard B. Riddick (Diesel), but as the survivors struggle to cope with the threat from within the group, it becomes apparent that there's a bigger threat soon to join the party, a deadly alien species, a species that can only operate in the dark. Pity, then, that an e
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Cast
- Vin DieselRichard B. Riddick
- Radha MitchellCarolyn Fry
- Cole HauserWilliam J. Johns
- Lewis Fitz-GeraldParis P. Ogilvie
- Claudia BlackShazza
- Keith DavidAbu 'Imam' al-Walid
- Rhiana GriffithJack / Jackie
- John MooreJohn 'Zeke' Ezekiel
- Simon BurkeGreg Owens
- Les ChanterySuleiman
Crew
- David TwohyDirector
- Jim WheatScreenplay
- Ken WheatScreenplay
- David TwohyScreenplay
- David EggbyDirector of Photography
- Graeme RevellOriginal Music Composer
- Rick ShaineEditor
- Tom EngelmanProducer
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