Riddick (2013)

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

If you liked Pitch Black you will like this.The story is again written in the original structure of 'Pitch Black' after taking a messy detour with 'The Chronicles of Riddick'. This coupled with some good action and common badass nature of Riddick resulted in a decent sci-fi flick.The direction and over all making is good. CGI is significantly better as we should expect from this time period.The casting I must say was pretty good. The actors playing all those heartless mercenaries were so good at their roles that this easily became a very likable solid action movie. And Riddick with his one liners and almost ridiculously planned schemes is too impressive to say the leastI personally have some issues with the third act of the movie but even with that this is a good action movie. I would easily recommend this to the action lovers.

Vin Diesel stars in this action-packed thriller as his typical jacked bad-ass protagonist who keeps his speaking to a minimal and still needs to work on his conflict resolution. The film also includes Batista, which was neat and I was glad to also see Katee Sackhoff who is basically playing the same role she plays on Longemire but that's due to the fact she is pretty good at it so far.Overall, good movie but only thing holding it back from a higher rating is the "impossible" moves Riddick performs and his ability to continuously make it out alive even though the odds are severely against him.

To be frank, I like this movie much better than Pitch Black. The reason is, that I find the characters much more interesting.I never liked the young Jones in Pitch Black. The new villain Santana and the older Jones are much more interesting. I even like Dahl. The other characters are the standard typical Mercs (with one exception, though also not interesting either -- every Riddick movie needs a religious man, it seams) ... nothing to remember here.The story, to be frank is basically a copy of Pitch Black with some different CGI. Maybe they thought, that if it worked once, let it do the job twice. The plot is simply rather dull and predictable from the beginning. Even the ending is very disappointing (I read somewhere, that the directors cut version shall give a little more ... but not much).Some plot holes are there also - for example two ships with top SciFi-equipment that shall detect any movement, but Riddick seams to be able to move without detection everywhere ... no hinting, why or how. Again Riddick is just without physical limits ... for me, a little to implausible, but who cares ...At least some cool lines and watchable interactions between the people -- I found it more interesting than Pitch Black.

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