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Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

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Reviews Counted:155

Fresh:46

Rotten:109

Average Rating:4.6/10

Consensus: As an action movie, Riddick offers some thrills, but as a sequel to Pitch Black, it's a disappointment.

Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: The sequel to cult sci-fi hit PITCH BLACK sees Vin Diesel enthusiastically returning to his role as Richard B. Riddick. Director-writer David Twohy is on board again, building on themes established... The sequel to cult sci-fi hit PITCH BLACK sees Vin Diesel enthusiastically returning to his role as Richard B. Riddick. Director-writer David Twohy is on board again, building on themes established in the first movie, and expanding his vision with some incredible special effects work. Twohy opens the movie with Riddick on the run from a group of bounty hunters. He escapes them with ease, then seeks information from an old friend named Inam (Keith David). Inam informs Riddick that he has been singled out by an Air Elemental, Aereon (Judi Dench), as the one man who can stop the evil Necromongers from taking over the Universe. Suddenly, the Necromongers arrive on the planet, causing mayhem and destruction. They capture Riddick. He soon escapes, only to fall into the hands of the bounty hunters he so deftly eluded at the start of the movie. They take Riddick to a rogue prison planet where he is met by scorching heat, an underground penitentiary, and his female companion from PITCH BLACK, Jack (who is now called Kyra, and played by a different actress, Alexa Davalos). They plan their escape from the planet, and vow to bring down the Necromongers. Things don't go according to plan however, leading to a suspense-filled climax to the film, and an eyebrow-raising ending that suggests Twohy may have plans for further installments in the story. [More]

Starring: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Alexa Davalos

Starring: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Alexa Davalos, Karl Urban, Nick Chinlund

Director: David Twohy

Director: David Twohy
Screenwriter: David Twohy
Producer: Vin Diesel, Scott Kroopf
Composer: Graeme Revell
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Overblown, badly written, poorly edited and just downright boring, this is, in a word, Riddickulous. Good special effects, though.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment 2 Comments
08/28/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

The sequel baton pass at the finale is pretty nifty, but it’s surely asking too much to think the filmmakers could leave us wanting more. Come to think of it, much, much less would have been best.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
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It’s no Battlefield Earth, but it’s no Dune either. And, no, before you ask, it’s not destined to be a cult classic.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
08/28/04
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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This is deluded filmmaking at best, an idea taken too far, too fast.

Full Review Source: FilmFocus | comment Comment
08/22/04
Joe Utichi
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus

Diesel is an imposing screen presence even when growling risible dialogue.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
08/31/04
Nev Pierce
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BBC
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In throwing out wit and intelligence for mindless action, Twohy ends up with a noisy, chaotic, over-serious mess.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
07/19/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Although The Chronicles of Riddick offers its share of solidly entertaining moments, it doesn't hold together as a single, coherent motion picture experience.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment 1 Comment
06/10/04
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Writer-director David Twohy has a much bigger budget than he did for Pitch Black, but he makes the all-too-common mistake of believing money can substitute for imagination.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 1 Comment
06/11/04
Megan Lehmann
Megan Lehmann
New York Post

The Chronicles Of Riddick is never dull, but it's far, far, far too pretentious.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment 1 Comment
06/14/04
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper

Fans of the cult fave will be happy: The story concepts are grander, the scope of the settings are infinitely enlarged, and the casting was kicked up a notch.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
06/11/04
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06/19/04
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06/19/04
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08/07/04
Sunday Times (Australia)
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Much like a William S. Burroughs novel, the film could be cut up and reassembled and make just as much sense.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
06/11/04
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Premiere Magazine

Combining elements of Hamlet, Dune and Vin Diesel running in slow-motion; Riddick essentially becomes William Shakespeare's first video game.

Full Review Source: Juicy Cerebellum | comment Comment
06/09/04
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

It’s all really just a series of episodes where metal weapons clang, firearms spew, and there is much manly grunting of he-men engaged in ferocious combat

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
06/09/04
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

I enjoyed it immensely, but not because it was any damn good.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
06/12/04
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

Plenty of interplanetary fighting and outwitting, but mostly it's video-gamish special effects that overwhelm the senses rather than entertain them.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
06/10/04
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

The Chronicles of Riddick doesn't hark back merely to the classic horror or science fiction canon but to nearly every single cinematic genre in the book, from westerns to film noir to sword-and-sandal epics.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
06/11/04
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

Space opera, a prison breakout, spectral zealots and an anarchist anti-hero - dumb, maybe, but this film has enough in it to make you see the light.

Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | comment Comment
08/21/04
Anton Bitel
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Movie Gazette
 
 
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