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Pitch Black review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 06/01/13
Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell) informs her co-pilot, Greg Owens (Simon Burke) that the Captain is dead. They try to maneuver a crashing ship with people namely Paris (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), Shazza, Muslim Imam (Keith David), a young boy named Jack (Rhiana Griffith), Zeke (John Moore) and Johns (Cole Hauser) and Ali. Convict/murderer Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel) escapes. Zeke gets killed and they are susecting it was Riddick. Riddick tells Fry it wasn't him. Visual effects and set pieces were impressive. Screenplay had some sublimnal messages such as: "Trees mean water." "Watch your mouth." "Let's just stick to the deal."The creed is greed." "I was wrong. I admit." and "I would die for them." The scene between Imam and Riddick regading a God was somewhat ill-advised. Overall, Pitch Black tried to emulate the suspense of The Birds by Hitchcock and emulate the creatures from Aliens and tries to be a horror sci-fi with less explanations about the planet/monsters/missions. Still, The film is worth viewing for sci-fi fanatics and its messages of sacrifice, morality, forgiveness and transformation.
