the_real_smile Review of Riddick

Riddick (2013)

Unbelievable remake of Pitch Black full of clichés

[6/10 · 24 December 2013]

Wow, how many clichés can one put in a movie? First of all, let me tell you this is just a remake of Pitch Black, but instead of flying monsters there are crawling monsters and they copied the "get the energy thing to the ship across a field of monsters" exactly. The bad guys present themselves as the best of the best, yet are able to make the dumbest mistake after another and even lower themselves to act like a group of 5 year old children. In a particular scene Riddick comes to the bad guys, drops his weapons, the bad guys approach him and .... also drop their weapons ..., makes no sense at all. Then you must understand there are 2 groups of bad guys, who are competing at each other, yet the second group allows to put their precious energy cell of their vessel in a safe by group 1, the safe only being allow access to group number 1. Then they argue if their IDENTICAL ships can exchange the power-cells between the ships, which off course remains to be seen. Later in the story Riddick tricks them to open the safe, and instead of closing it right away, they leave it open to have some sort of coffee brake in the next room. If you still can stand the clichés and keep watching you have the usual "don't look at that window" scenes etc. Then the CGI, even a 2 year old can see the "dogs" aren't real, far from it, yet the whole movie is full of it. I would not say it's unwatchable, just don't expect an intelligent movie.