Chronicles of Riddick, The
Cast: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos
Writer / Director: David Twohy
Synopsis: The adventures of Riddick (Diesel) continue five years later (after Pitch Black), as the escaped convict with the ability to see in the dark finds himself caught in the middle of a galactic war between two opposing forces, with the key figure being the Lord Marshal(Feore), the leader of a sect called the Necromongers waging the "10th Crusade" in the 26th century. Helping Riddick is Aereon(Dench), the Ambassador of the "Elemental" race, who helps Riddick unearth the secrets of his origin and Kyra(Davalos), who has grown up since Riddick knew her as a preteen girl in the first movie. Attempting to free himself and Kyra from a subterranean prison, Riddick ends up on board the Necromonger flagship, where he gets his chance to face off against the Lord Marshal in a battle over the future of all beings in the galaxy, both living and dead... (taken from imdb.com)

Mini Review:
What's the point?

This is the question that I ask myself when I finished watching the movie. There's lots of cool stuffs going around in this movie: the elaborate and eye-popping special effects and set design on the planets and the spaceships as well as cool action sequences and even a fine action star performance from Diesel. Unfortunately, it has a very self-important sci-fi epic wannabe story that is just unbelieavably boring and derivative. Yawn

Early in the production, this movie was planned as a 3-part trilogy. It was compared with the LOTR trilogy with Pitch Black as "the hobbit"-esque prequel. While I am not a big fan of the LOTR trilogy, this plan just show how much wannabe this franchise is like. Let's hope such thing won't happen.

Rating: 2 out of 5


Simply Riddick-ulous