Better Late Then Never

A Major Disappointment

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Just watched it and even 14years later it aged very well. cant understand why this movie got so many bad critics.. this is a nice dystopian, fantasy, sci-fi, film noir alike action movie.i like the style of the necromongers who could just jumped out of a hr giger sketchbook, the parts with the mercenaries, the prison planet, the visuals, the cast, the atmosphere, the story..the end is also very nice and its so sad that due its bad critics it couldnt make quiet enough money at the box offices to convince the studios of a big budget thrid part..this could go so well..nothing against part 3, but you know what i mean..overall its a solid 8 in my eyes. go watch it!

Gees, where do you begin..., I've just peeled myself off the floor after suffering some kind of visual overload, yes the scenes were very flashy, very colorful, and I couldn't keep up with the story because I was being overwhelmed by the seriously over-the-top special effects. From what I gathered, The Chronicles of Riddick could be considered a decent film from a different opinion, but in my opinion I wasn't a fan hence why I rated it lower, not necessarily a bad film it just didn't float my boat in any way. An exhibition of elaborate set designs and headache inducing special effects, this is proper Sci-Fi, I just wish I could've understood it. The Chronicles of Riddick is the sequel to (the much better) Pitch Black, that was a film I enjoyed and actually could follow, and Vin Diesel was fantastic in creating the allure and mystique that surrounds the titular character, Richard Riddick; yet in this film, the mystique and coolness was sadly replaced by confusion.Unusual for one of my reviews but I really can't elaborate on the story or the plot, because somewhere along the viewing I got lost and couldn't find the thread to get back into it, but, that's the point, it's a confusing film so I will base my review on that very point..., if you can watch The Chronicles of Riddick and understand it, well you must be a smarter guy than I.

The Chronicles of Riddick was probably always going to be a hard sell. It's a sequel that was spawned off the back of a blatant B-movie which - somehow - exceeded all expectations and became a sleeper classic, ie. Pitch Black.Chronicles of Riddick is set five years after space convict Riddick escaped the last prison transport (and a planet full of monsters) and has now found himself not only hunted by mercenaries but also charged with the task of bringing down an empire of intergalactic nasties.Personally, I quite enjoyed it. It has great action, some witty dialogue from Riddick himself and decent (if a little too CGI) special effects.However, it's worth noting that it didn't perform as well as it was predicted at the Box Office. I'm guessing that was because it doesn't really seem to know what sort of film it wants to be. Its predecessor, Pitch Black, was an out and our sci-fi horror. Chronicles waters down the fear factor in exchange for a lower rating (in order to draw more younger viewers in) which annoyed its core fanbase. Plus there's only ever really Riddick to root for. He works alone and this is proved by the fact that he barely ever meets up with 'a gang' so to speak of. He just goes from planet to planet, briefly interacting with one set of locals after another. Then you have the baddies. Yes, the costumes and sets are great, but they're pretty clichéd and one dimensional. Ooh, a Bristish bad guy - there's a shock.All in all, Riddick is fun, but the bottom line is that it's little more than a remake of the eighties (so-bad-it's-good) classic Flash Gordon, only with better special effects.

Riddick (Vin Diesel) is still on the run from bounty hunters. He travels to Helion Prime to the source of the bounty and finds the Imam (Keith David) who he saved 5 years earlier in the movie 'Pitch Black'. His planet is under threat from invasion from a dark force spreading across the Universe. Aereon (Judi Dench) is an Elemental who is looking for Furyan warriors who can stand up to the Necromongers led by Lord Marshal (Colm Feore). The other survivor Jack had gone to look for Riddick and is now imprisoned on the roasting planet Crematoria. When the Necromongers attack the planet, Riddick escapes from the Necromongers and allows himself to be captured by bounty hunter Toombs (Nick Chinlund) He is sent to Crematoria where he reunites with Jack now called Kyra (Alexa Davalos). Riddick escapes with Kyra to the planet's sun ravaged surface. Lord Marshal sends Necromonger warrior Vakko (Karl Urban) and his wife Dame Vakko (Thandie Newton) to kill Riddick.I wish Rhiana Griffith could have returned but it's understandable to have a new Jack. She's a new age and basically a completely different character. The movie has a lot of big design. Some of it looks good. The problem is that the story is way too complicated. There are too many moving parts. The genius of the first movie is that the story is so simplistic. I wish it could use the same simplicity for this one. I really love the planet Crematoria. It would have been so much better to streamline the story to escape from Crematoria. All the stuff about Necromonger just mess things up. They could have set them up for a later movie. There's no need to pack so much into one movie.