Superficial viewers, which are plenty, will view this as an remake of Pitch Black. Far from the truth. Its an entirely different script in which Riddick is stranded by his own with no food/water/ship and severely injured on top of it. Like Riddick says 'there are bad days and there are legendary bad days' and the film moves on to develop Riddick character and his adaptability skills like never before.
The movie successfully takes Riddick story to another level where we see for the first time Riddick's weaknesses with him almost dying twice, we see what would've happened to Kyra if he hadn't go all the way to the 'other side of the universe' to protect her(his dog-alike friend gets killed by his hunters), we see for the first time someone playing him(necromangas) and he falling to the bullsh*t that they'll take him to Furya, we see him being hunted by very good mercs(john's team not santana) not by some 'skittish' ones, we see for the first time how he uses his bluffing skills making them to open the locker :-), we see for the first time showing mercy to his hunters, etc
I see a lot of comments about the writing, as if this was supposed to an symposium on nuclear physics. I find the writing very fitting to the situation and its very plausible that in real life you would get this sort of conversation, very simple, straight to the point and sometimes even funny.
I also see a lot of comments about the similarity with the monsters from pitch black. I could make same complaints about the action being on a similar solid-earth planet instead of liquid or gas planet. Come on, this isn't really a serious complaint. An adaptable creature is very probable to have its period of hibernation till the proper conditions of existence occurs. Earth animals do this to escape from winter for example.
All in all its certainly not a waste of time and anyone who enjoyed first two movies will find this one a very rewarding with a deeper plunge into Riddick character and his motives for being what he is, the adaptability to new environments and doing anything to survive. The movie is very entertaining all the way and keeps me wanting more, seeing Riddick into more situations where his limits are tested. Very realistic film even though its set in a SCI-FI environment! Has funny moments, action and drama moments, what can a viewer ask more? 10/10
The movie successfully takes Riddick story to another level where we see for the first time Riddick's weaknesses with him almost dying twice, we see what would've happened to Kyra if he hadn't go all the way to the 'other side of the universe' to protect her(his dog-alike friend gets killed by his hunters), we see for the first time someone playing him(necromangas) and he falling to the bullsh*t that they'll take him to Furya, we see him being hunted by very good mercs(john's team not santana) not by some 'skittish' ones, we see for the first time how he uses his bluffing skills making them to open the locker :-), we see for the first time showing mercy to his hunters, etc
I see a lot of comments about the writing, as if this was supposed to an symposium on nuclear physics. I find the writing very fitting to the situation and its very plausible that in real life you would get this sort of conversation, very simple, straight to the point and sometimes even funny.
I also see a lot of comments about the similarity with the monsters from pitch black. I could make same complaints about the action being on a similar solid-earth planet instead of liquid or gas planet. Come on, this isn't really a serious complaint. An adaptable creature is very probable to have its period of hibernation till the proper conditions of existence occurs. Earth animals do this to escape from winter for example.
All in all its certainly not a waste of time and anyone who enjoyed first two movies will find this one a very rewarding with a deeper plunge into Riddick character and his motives for being what he is, the adaptability to new environments and doing anything to survive. The movie is very entertaining all the way and keeps me wanting more, seeing Riddick into more situations where his limits are tested. Very realistic film even though its set in a SCI-FI environment! Has funny moments, action and drama moments, what can a viewer ask more? 10/10