Rating of
3/4
A decent movie
The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/01/08
Vin Diesel reprises his role of "Riddick," a an escaped convict with the ability to see in darkness, who is caught in a war between the "Necromongers" and the people of the world he ends up on while running from a group of bounty hunters.
The movie is most certainly high on action and computer-generated special effects, but the dialogue is a little to be desired.
The characters are not greatly defined, possibly because this is a sequel of "Pitch Black," a movie I haven't seen. I am not sure, with exception of "Riddick", which of the characters are introduced in this movie, and which were introduced in the first movie. I suggest that you see the first movie just in case, which is something I should have done myself.
Despite not knowing which characters came from the first movie, and which didn't, I noticed that this movie has a lot more action than most sci-fi movies I've seen. This movie thrives more on action than dialogue, which can be good and bad at the same time. However, you forget the fairly weak dialogue because you get such a short break between action scenes.
Despite not seeing the first movie, I pretty much liked this particular movie. It didn't make me want to see the first movie as soon as possible, but it does have me a bit curious about it.
