Mike's Review: The beginning of this movie basically made 'The Chronicles of Riddick' (2004) a waste of time to watch. Within the first 10 minutes of 'Riddick' they were able to get back to the core of who Riddick is and away from the whole Necromonger garbage story line. I was curious how they were going to tie all the films together and the way they did actually seemed plausible. The plot itself was a little weak but they were basically bringing Riddick back from the dead and letting him do what he does best. On a side note the addition of Katee Sackoff as 'Dahl' has potential and I hope to see more of her in the next Riddick movie.
Best Scene: Box Boy's head in a box.
Mike's Rating: Worth the price of the ticket. And DVD worthy.
Bean's Review: If you liked 'Pitch Black', you will like
'Riddick'. Riddick is trying to get home and ends up in bad shape on a
planet that is not home. After recovering and befriending a “dog”,
reminiscent of the dogs in 'Chronicles of Riddick',
he seeks out a method to get off the planet – enter the “mercs”.
The use of the hated Johns’
father as a tie-in with Pitch Black, worked well. Molla was quite good
as the bad guy and he was just humorous enough to not make him totally
unlikeable. I also enjoyed the interaction of Riddick
with Dahl.
Vin Diesel was in fine form as
Riddick and did not stray from the character he portrayed in 'Pitch Black'
and 'Chronicles'.
Best Scene: slicing of Santana’s head with subsequent drop into the “box”
Bean's Rating: Definitely worth full price ticket!.
I watched CHRONICLE the night before going to RIDDICK so the whole story was fresh in my mind.
ReplyDeleteThe first half hour was a mirror of RETURN OF THE JEDI where they had to tie up the Han Solo kidnapping at Jabba's palace. In RIDDICK they used the time to dispense with the Necromongers storyline. (The producers originally planned a trilogy of Necromonger stories but low box office foiled that and it took years just to get RIDDICK made).
Overall enjoyable movie. Always good to see Riddick on the screen. Agreed the addition of Dahl is a good thing and hopefully she will return in the next movie not wind up like Jack/Kyra.
Only complaint is it took a little too long to get to the monsters who weren't as scary as the ones in PITCH BLACK.
Best scenes were Riddick stalking the Mercenaries...for a few minutes I actually forgot he was the "hero" because he was very menacing in those scenes.
Good insite. I had the same issue with the "monsters". The ones in Pitch Black were much more menancing. I also liked the scene in which Riddick just barely touches Dahl's hair while she is in the bathroom. Very reminiscent of Pitch Black.
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