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Collection ID
1126
Director:
David Twohy
Starring:
Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Genre:
Horror, Sci-Fi, TV Movie
Studio:
Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Release date:
2000
Rated:
R
Language (Country):
English, Arabic
(USA)
Summary:
The space transport vessel "Hunter-Gratzner" carrying 40 people on-board crashes on a desert planet when the ship is struck in a meteor storm. There are only 11 survivors, among them are pilot Carolyn Fry (Who has assumed command after the ship's captain is killed), bounty hunter William J. Johns, religious man Abu Al-Walid, Antiques dealer Paris P. Ogilvie, runaway teenager Jack, settlers John 'Zeke' Ezekiel and his lover Sharon 'Shazza' Montgomery, and Richard B. Riddick, a dangerous escaped convict. Marooned, the survivors discover the barren and hot desert-scape has sunlight from three suns. Not only must they find food and water and worry about Riddick, the survivors find themselves being hunted by the planet's flesh-eating alien inhabitants when the planet is engulfed in darkness, which happens every 22 years, as they emerge from underground to hunt and eat all signs of life. Fry and the survivors find Riddick is their best chance of survival, as Riddick has surgically-enhanced ...
My Rating:
My Review: Pitch Black - 2000 (Horror, sci-fi, action) Directed and Written (in part) by David Twohy. Starring Vin Diesel (as Richard B. Riddick), Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Claudia Black and others. Pitch Black marks the beginning of a movie mythos. I don’t think the producers expected it to do as well as it did, and from it was born a franchise. With a fourth film in production (as of Mar, 2016), this is the movie that started it all by creating a character that couldn’t be ignored. Riddick is a dark hero. A downtrodden victim of a brutal and merciless post-civilized society where there’s only two types of citizens - Those who obey and those who don’t. Riddick is one of the latter. Riddick is a convicted felon on his way to some sort of penal colony along with a ship full of colonists bound for some ‘holy land’. When the transport crashes on a desert planet, only a survivor like Riddick can guide the remaining colonists through a deadly eclipse. The survivors find an abandoned settlement and make an unsettling discovery. This planet is missing its colonists for a very deadly reason. Every 22 years this planet slips into a month long eclipse, and the planets indigenous, subterranean inhabitants come out to play. When the lights go down, these nasty creatures come crawling out of their underground lairs, and the war is on. It’s a non-stop slug-fest where only the deadliest predator survives. What’s more dangerous Riddick or the flesh eating night dwellers? Can they manage to evacuate or will they all die on this desert planet? The casting, direction, pacing and editing are all top notch. The story is a tense race between man and monster. Vin Diesel and the rest of the cast do a great job in their roles, and the colors, sounds and costumes all blend perfectly to create a creepy, frightening sci-fi thriller unlike any other. I give this movie a 5 out of 5.
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