#4135 - 06/14/04 10:14 PM
Movie Review: The Chronicles of Riddick
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Hardkore
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Ok, first and foremost. I know a lot of people on this board DO NOT like Vin Diesel in the very least, and this movie is not gonna do ANYTHING to change this.
The Chronicles of Riddick is the continuation of the story of Richard B. Riddick started in 1998's Pitch Black. In case you haven't seen Pitch Black , I will now explain it.
Richard B. Riddick is the most wanted criminal in the universe (the film takes place in the 30th century, I would guess we would have figured out intergalactic travel by then), he is a murderer the likes of which the universe has never seen. He eludes capture for many years, killing his share of bounty hunters along the way, until he is trapped and captured by a mercenary named Johns.
To collect Riddick's quite substansial bounty, Johns must transport Riddick back to a Slam (basically huge prison complexes built on inhospitable worlds, so as to make escape unlikely). Johns ship was destroyed during the hunt, so he is forced to use civilian transport. He and Riddick board a cargo ship bound for the world of Helios Prime, the new human home world and site of New Mecca, place of Muslim pilgrimage.
On the way to Helios, the transport ship veers off course and gets caught in a micrometeor storm, facilitating a crash on a desert world filled with carnivourous, nocturnal monsters. The catch is that the planet is shrouded in darkness during a planetary alignment that starts a solar eclipse that lasts 14 years. and they happened to crash on that day.
One thing leads to another, people die, and only three people survive the escape from the planet, through the use of an emergency escape craft in
an abandoned human settlement.
When Chronicles opens, we are introduced to the world of U.V. 6, a planet of ice, there Riddick has been flushed out of hiding by mercenary Toombs and his crew, but he makes short work of him, takes his ship, and flies back to Helion Prime.
Now, on with the review.
I see Chronicles for what it is, an action flick. Certain things, such as plot holes, bad acting, and the occasional cheesy one-liner are fine. This movie would have been way better in a more violent R rated form.
The action scenes are great, and do not try to be more beyond the bounds of reality than they can, but they focus on Riddick as being too much of a bad ass. What I mean is, yes, Riddick was a bad ass killer in Pitch Black, but now he is the most bad ass guy in the universe....come on guys, was it not enough that he kills people, now he has to be uber-killer? The killing in this movie was way too immaculate, and is missing the evisceral quality that it should have. Plus, Riddick's banter with this kid is creepy, and borders on pedophilic.
The story was above-average, but the bad-guys names make me giggle....Necromongers....yes you read that correctly.
This long winded review has lasted long enough, I will say this, if you have nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon, this movie is a good distraction, otherwise, find something else. I saw it because I got a free ticket from buying the superb Pitch Black on DVD. What's your excuse?
Rating: 5/10
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#4136 - 06/15/04 07:57 AM
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For§aken
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I work at the movie theater, so I get in free.
I thought it was cool. /me shrugs.
Besides, that chick is freakin hot.
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#4137 - 06/15/04 06:26 PM
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Jamin
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The chick is indeed freakin hot. And I don't think it was really pedophilic either... We'll assume she was like 12 or 13 in the first movie, and this one is supposed to be five years later (iirc), so she's 17 or 18 now, which makes her not jailbait anymore. A little creepy for a 40 year old to be hitting on her, maybe, but not any more weird than seeing Vin Diesel with the long dreadlocky things.
One of the big things that bugged me about the movie was that one dude's weird mohawk/mullet combination thing. C'mon, guys, don't they have better hairstyles in the 30th century? No one likes mullets in the first place, let alone when you buzz the side of your head too.
Anyway, like Hardkore said, it's basically a good popcorn movie. Nice brainless entertainment. But it definitely lacks in the gratuitous gore and/or boobies area...
---Jamin
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#4138 - 06/15/04 06:29 PM
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Hardkore
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Yes the chick was hot....but the girl I was talking about was Imam the Muslim preists kid.
If you watch it again, you will see what I'm talking about.....creepy.
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#4139 - 06/15/04 06:33 PM
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Jamin
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Oh THAT chick. Yeah, I do remember some of the weirdness with her, like they kept makin' eyes at each other across the room.
---Jamin
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#4140 - 06/15/04 11:54 PM
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Ebolamonkey3000
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The plot holes are nicely filled in if you play Escape From Butcher Bay, Which looks as good as fuckin doom 3. And i thought the movie was a nice step forward for the sci-fi genre, which has been getting the shaft lately.
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