Vin Diesel

Matt Nable

Katee Sackhoff

Jordi Mollà

Dave Bautista

Karl Urban

Bokeem Woodbine

Nolan Gerard Funk

Andreas Apergis

Noah Dalton Danby

Neil Napier

Raoul Max Trujillo

Conrad Pla

Danny Blanco Hall

Keri Hilson

Charlie Marie Dupont

Jan Gerste

Antoinette Kalaj

Alexandra Sokolovskaya

Lani Minella

David Twohy

David Eggby

Anne McCarthy

Graeme Revell

Tracy Adams

Ted Field

Simonetta Mariano

Joseph C. Nemec III

Samantha Vincent

Mike Drake

George Zakk

Adrien Morot

Emile Ghorayeb

Ken Wheat

Jim Wheat

Zandara Kennedy

Troy Robinson

Frédéric Côté

Michelle Côté

Marc Desaulniers

Annie Jalbert

Sophie Béasse

Lise Servant

Vicki L. Sawyer

Nikolaos Dresios

Noëlle Lara

Susan Sloan

Michael Saintsbury

Nicole Lapierre

Fanny Vachon

Johanne Titley

Roxy D'Alonzo

Maggy Belzile

Yves Desjardins

Ghislaine Sant

Kevin Carter

Rocco Stallone

Catherine Lavoie

Morgan Robbins

Melissa Halarides

Elizabeth Tremblay

Suzanne Canuel

Diana Ascher

Brent Radford

Brandon Thompson

Lee Gren

Anthony J. Biondolillo

Eugénie Clermont

Gillian Chandler

Charlie Greene

Martin Nepton

Linda Leduc

Julie Amyot

Nickey Chow

Michael Underwood

Jonathan Girard

Robert Bastens

Martin Brisebois

Nathalie Chretien

Blake Harjes

Gordon Fordyce

Gabriel Lavina

Serge Harvey

Milaine Gamache

Josianne Mailloux

Bruce Lomet

Louis Desrochers

Charles Abou Aad

Martin Larrivée

Antoine Rouleau

Rik Panero

Samantha Howze

Leslie Conover

Sean Schur

Samuel Jacques

Philippe David

Maxx Burman

Stéphanie Morin

Jerry Weil

Valentin Trasnea

Thomas Hallé

Peter Koss

Taran Matharu

Andrea Espinal

Kenneth Armstrong

Sylvain Allard

Louis Paré

Alex Jadfard

Philippe Roberge

Arnaud Brisebois

James William Roberts

Sylvain Theroux

Hiroyuki David Yabu

Kaz Yoshida

Tiberius Viris

Sith Khay

Norbert Ruf

The Chronicles of Riddick Collection

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After trying to move the character to more epic levels in ‘Chronicles of Riddick’, and failing to capture an audience, this third installment in the series, simply titled ‘Riddick’,  is a return-to-basics for director David Twohy. It quickly sets itself loose from the baggage of ‘Chronicles’ and pursues a more clear-cut survival action story that might as well be titled ‘Pitch Black 2‘.

Maybe you're all scared of the wrong thing.

Unsurprisingly reactions to this, the third outing for Vin Diesel's sci-fi based anti-hero, has been very mixed. In truth it's hardly a great film of the "must see" kind, and it does in fact cleave very close to Pitch Black, the first and most superior of the Riddick trilogy. However, there's a whole bunch of science fiction fun to be had here.

Plot has Riddick left for dead on a inhospitable planet, where he finds himself up against some alien creatures. His only hope of getting off the planet is to bring notice of his whereabouts, which brings two ships to where he is. Both with crews who have differing reasons for wanting to capture the enigmatic convict...

And thus we get a beautifully filmed sci-fier that features beasties of both the human and alien kind. Action and moody histrionics are never far away, and Diesel is wonderfully muscular, macho, course and scary. Some of the CGI is weak, and naturally much of the film's coincidences and contrivances have to be forgiven if one wants a popcorn and beer good time of it. 7/10

Gimly

**(Note: This review is of the theatrical version, I have seen the uncut version and it is an improvement, but have not reviewed that edition)**

In this latest incarnation, Riddick goes boldly goes where no previous entry has gone before: Nowhere.

Say what you will about the previous film (_Chronicles of Riddick_) at least it had the guts to take some risks. Sure, almost all of those ended up being complete misfires, but they were still taken. Riddick on the other hand plays it safe. It’s a path not entirely without benefit, but one that was not expected from the series spawned by Australian cult-classic _Pitch Black_.

Shoot me for saying it but I’m actually a huge fan of Davind Twohy (_The Arrival, Waterworld, G.I. Jane, A Perfect Getaway_) so I actually sort of hoped for more from the piece. Sure _Chronicles_ was silly and disjointed, sure _Dark Fury_ was totally unnecessary and _Dark Athena/Butcher Bay_ were only intermittently decent, but overall the Riddick franchise will always be compared to _Pitch Black_, and against this prodigy, the latest movie is simply subpar.

The Necromonger storyline has been all but dropped, any connections to previous characters (sans Riddick) are completely unbelievable and the events are a shameless rip off of the first film. Seeing a more “survivalist” and intelligent Riddick is nice, as it’s always been sort of more insinuated than outright shown. The entire world that the events of the film take place on is even moderately interesting, and none of the actors or characters are outright let downs, but overall Riddick falls much closer to the “barely watchable” category than the “brilliant” one.

It’s “cool”, it’s pretty and it’s most certainly entertaining, but it’s not new, it’s not clever, and it’s most certainly not as good as _Pitch Black_.

66%

-_Gimly_

Repo Jack

The third Pitch Black film "Riddick" is much more focused than its predecessor and a welcome return to the formula that worked so well for the original movie. Riddick is a bad-ass survivalist fighting an extinction level event that threatens everybody, with an assembly cast that is colorful and fun to watch.

Riddick( 2013)

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A review by praVeeng

Written by praVeeng on Sat Sep 14 2013

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