The Chronicles of Riddick

Twohy knows how to shoot tense, bare-knuckle action, and his towering, gunmetal gray world is a fun sandbox to play in for two hours.

Threatens to become a serious movie, but they're quickly overwhelmed by another indecipherable rampage or outsize visual effect.

Chronicles of Riddick is half cheesy, brawny adventure and half … something else. That something else involves a lot of leather, bondage, studded armor and heavy machinery.

This is a movie so devoted to metal that it couldn't care less about the flesh it destroys.

The action is so frenetic that the ominous mood isn't allowed to penetrate, and this time the human factor is all but erased.

Not since John Travolta sprouted a head of dreadlocks and strapped on platform boots for "Battlefield Earth" has cinematic science fiction been such good-bad fun as in The Chronicles of Riddick.

May not quite gain entry to the hallowed pantheon of interstellar cheese of a "Battlefield Earth," but it's not far behind.

critics, you ****. Just saying, you know... this is not ok. This movie is completely awesome! Everything in it amazes me! Riddick is so bad ass! And I just... wow. This critics really need to think better.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Somewhat entertaining but very dumb and derivative. Can't seriously recommend.

The things you watch during a lockdown. I would give this a 1 but you have to admire the audacity of making a film like this that borrows so liberally from past science fiction classics, namely Dune and Blade Runner, and pass it off as something original. Of course you can blame Alan Dean Foster for the gross plagiarism. Twohy merely adapted this twaddle to the screen, throwing in a few Chinese flying kicks for good measure. What you get is a very low grade science fiction adventure that looks like something from the early 80s. I'm shocked by the $120 million budget. It looks like something you could have made for $5 mil. I could only marvel that Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, and Dame Judi Dench would attach themselves to what is essentially a Vin Diesel vehicle, although he looks just as badly out of place in his cheap black goggles and tank top. There's no point telling the plot as it is so predictable you will figure out how it ends within the first few minutes. You watch it only to fill time, however two hours feels like ten given the lugubrious pace of this so-called action yarn. As a game, this might be fun to play. At least you can manipulate the outcome a little. Here you are at the mercy of the director. If there is any saving grace to this mess it is the fetching Alexa Davalos. You would like to see much more of her, but alas this is a Vin Diesel vehicle so you have to put up with his hulking image throughout, as he tries to protect Kyra from the evil clutches of the Lord Marshall. Seems like Colm Feore really beefed himself up for the role, either that or he had a great costume designer. I understand there is a vast market for this nonsense, but can't we be a little more imaginative?

Moué bah, c’est un genre d’espèce de suite au Pitch Black (déjà médiocre en soi) avec bien évidemment toujours tête de piaf qui vient encore (plus) rouler des mécaniques que d’habitude : il a mis le turbo, ce con ! C’est bien simple, il passe sa vie à parader et à balancer des vannes éculées (mais va te faire éculer, putain ! avec tes répliques ridicules, sérieux !).Qui a écrit les dialogues ce film de merde, franchement ? il a été payé pour ça, le gars ?! c’est repoussant de connerie et de beauferie réunies ! Et pour la trame du scénar en question, elle est particulièrement élimée. C’est bien simple, y a pas d’histoire là-dedans, zéro, nada, que dalle. Le vide interstellaire et puis c’est tout. Alors, ça remplit et ça meuble tant que ça peut pendant presque deux heures et quart ! il reste de l’action ici et là (quand même) mais souvent perfectible (c’est assez mal filmé). Les effets spéciaux sont heureusement dans l’ensemble convaincants et la patte artistique des envahisseurs, des ‘destructeurs de mondes’, est tout à fait convaincante elle aussi. C’est pour ça que je mets 1, 1 point quand même ! (je ne suis pas un monstre).