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Pitch Black
I still like this after many previous viewings, but the weird misogyny of the last film has made me notice it here as well. →
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Pitch Black
Tight, low-fi SF action thriller from before it was ruined by all the Chronicles of Riddick waffle. May actually be perfect. →
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Review of David Twohy’s The Chronicles of Riddick
The Australian-produced, low-profile Pitch Black that launched Vin Diesel's career did not need a sequel. It was a great film — a simple idea (a hostile world, plunged into darkness), a straightforward plot (get some supplies, get off the planet before the lights go out), and a clever hook (the only one who can see in the dark is the murdering psychopath they've brought with them) — but it was also a film that had very definitely finished. Diesel's Riddick developed a mini-conscience and saved some people instead of leaving them to die. He'd grown as a person, you see? →