people who thought that the chronicles of riddick sucked harder than the black hole that swallowed up event horizon and probably do not see the movie that spawned vin diesel skin headed killer to begin with and and probably have no intention of doing so. too bad and because pitch black actually does kick major ass. directed by genre vet david twohy and (warlock and the excellent but underrated below) and written by siblings jim and ken wheat (lies and silent scream) and pitch black begins with an alien esque prologue. when a combination cargo freighter or passenger ship is badly damaged by a freak meteor shower (in which the captain is also killed) and the co pilot and carolyn fry (silent hills radha mitchell) has an important decision to make represent ditch the cargo or the passengers. close to picking ore over occupants and the crash landing derails her ultimate course of action. no matter and because the catastrophic landing has been made on a foreboding rock that once held a mining colony. amongst the survivors are a couple of settlers and shazza (farscape claudia black) and zeke (john moore) while an imam (keith david) and his young followers (can you say red shirts boys and girls. ) while an antiques dealer named paris ogilvie (lewis fitz gerald) while a young boy named jack (rhianna griffith) and and the most controversial members of the group represent a marshall named johns (the excellently slimy cole hauser) and his prisoner. a dangerous murderer named riddick (diesel). how the group dynamics shake out make for a lot of the dramatic tension and especially with concerns about riddick and how many people he might slice and dice if he ever gets away. but no one here gets out alive and as the saying goes and and the biggest twists have less to do with how they get along and than how they will survive when they discover the unthinkable. they are not alone on the planetoid. things that are hungry and taloned and quick are slithering around just where they can not be seen and living in the darkness where they can survive and thrive. they want the flesh of the new arrivals to sate their appetites and but they can not come out into the searing daylight to forage for food. does the phrase total eclipse make things a little more interesting. you betcha. hence the more than fitting title. vin and more monosyllabic than clint eastwood dirty harry on his grumpiest day and dripping more testosterone than sweat and has a field day here with a character that really does seem worth a sequel or two and and hauser and oozing menace and bile is every bit as good as his dad wings was at on screen villainy. surprisingly and though and mitchell holds her own and manages to be strong and sympathetic as fry. you would expect no less than a strong showing from black and she who once was aeryn sun and and she doesn not disappoint. (too bad her role wasn not bigger and but that all i will say about it. ) and david makes his usual indelible impression as the holy man whose faith will truly be tested in the very pit of hell itself. the pace moves faster than riddick slipping up behind his prey with a shank in his teeth and and once the darkness descends and the terror and tension never let up and pretty much as in other classic sci fi or horror flicks which this imitates. but if imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery and dave twohy and the wheats deserve major backslaps for getting this one right with a vengeance and and for giving us an ending that is anti hollywood to the max. i do not want to spoil the surprises and so i would not say much more and except that if you saw chronicles first and weren not too happy and give pitch black a chance anyway. and if you have seen neither and definitely start with this one. i do not know what vin is up to now and but he could certainly do worse than to give these guys a call again. i would love to see what they would dream up next. 
people who thought that the chronicles of riddick sucked harder than the black hole that swallowed up event horizon and probably do not see the movie that spawned vin diesel skin headed killer to begin with and and probably have no intention of doing so. too bad and because pitch black actually does kick major ass. directed by genre vet david twohy and (warlock and the excellent but underrated below) and written by siblings jim and ken wheat (lies and silent scream) and pitch black begins with an alien esque prologue. when a combination cargo freighter or passenger ship is badly damaged by a freak meteor shower (in which the captain is also killed) and the co pilot and carolyn fry (silent hills radha mitchell) has an important decision to make represent ditch the cargo or the passengers. close to picking ore over occupants and the crash landing derails her ultimate course of action. no matter and because the catastrophic landing has been made on a foreboding rock that once held a mining colony. amongst the survivors are a couple of settlers and shazza (farscape claudia black) and zeke (john moore) while an imam (keith david) and his young followers (can you say red shirts boys and girls. ) while an antiques dealer named paris ogilvie (lewis fitz gerald) while a young boy named jack (rhianna griffith) and and the most controversial members of the group represent a marshall named johns (the excellently slimy cole hauser) and his prisoner. a dangerous murderer named riddick (diesel). how the group dynamics shake out make for a lot of the dramatic tension and especially with concerns about riddick and how many people he might slice and dice if he ever gets away. but no one here gets out alive and as the saying goes and and the biggest twists have less to do with how they get along and than how they will survive when they discover the unthinkable. they are not alone on the planetoid. things that are hungry and taloned and quick are slithering around just where they can not be seen and living in the darkness where they can survive and thrive. they want the flesh of the new arrivals to sate their appetites and but they can not come out into the searing daylight to forage for food. does the phrase total eclipse make things a little more interesting. you betcha. hence the more than fitting title. vin and more monosyllabic than clint eastwood dirty harry on his grumpiest day and dripping more testosterone than sweat and has a field day here with a character that really does seem worth a sequel or two and and hauser and oozing menace and bile is every bit as good as his dad wings was at on screen villainy. surprisingly and though and mitchell holds her own and manages to be strong and sympathetic as fry. you would expect no less than a strong showing from black and she who once was aeryn sun and and she doesn not disappoint. (too bad her role wasn not bigger and but that all i will say about it. ) and david makes his usual indelible impression as the holy man whose faith will truly be tested in the very pit of hell itself. the pace moves faster than riddick slipping up behind his prey with a shank in his teeth and and once the darkness descends and the terror and tension never let up and pretty much as in other classic sci fi or horror flicks which this imitates. but if imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery and dave twohy and the wheats deserve major backslaps for getting this one right with a vengeance and and for giving us an ending that is anti hollywood to the max. i do not want to spoil the surprises and so i would not say much more and except that if you saw chronicles first and weren not too happy and give pitch black a chance anyway. and if you have seen neither and definitely start with this one. i do not know what vin is up to now and but he could certainly do worse than to give these guys a call again. i would love to see what they would dream up next. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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