Released: 2000
Rated: R
Genre: Science Fiction Thriller
Recommendation: No. Not really.
Synopsis:
A group of marooned space travelers struggle for survival or a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world.
My Thoughts and Summary:
My men here love watching The Chronicles of Riddick. I liked it for the world the first two times I saw it, after that well lets just say I go to another room when it's on. It's always on tv and the boys love it. I'm bored with it after the first 100 times. But searching through Netflix I found this and thought they always wanted to see the "first" movie of The Chronicles of Riddick. I never really searched for it as I could care less, but did get left with a feeling of another movie from The Chronicles of Riddick. So being the kind wife I am, suggested I would watch it with him for his birthday.
Yeah, we should have left well enough alone. Its just another science fiction movie on a deserted planet and all hell breaks loose. The planet has two suns, where dark never falls. But there is something that happened to the people who where here. Something ugly and so many die.
We meet characters you see in the second movie, Jack and Abu. Which is nice to see how Riddick met them. We get to see Riddicks eyes and hear his brief story on getting them. We even see him use those eyes a great deal here and get the visual affect of his eyes.
But for the story line... it was boring. The movie moved slow and I realized I got lost. Not really lost but I couldn't figure out at one point why they were taking so long to get back to the compound. Yeah Riddick tells what's going on briefly, but I didn't remember they having to go through what they did to get back. My mind was just not into the show and I wasn't paying attention.
As for rated R. I think it's for language and blood. There was a few f-bombs and lots of death. Other than that nothing big.
My husband the big Riddick fan was disappointed in this one. He thought it was boring and had to make a joke about my picks in movies. Yeah, it wasn't all that hot.
