Blaironit Excellent film with a gripping story!

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Stephen Bird Gees, where do you begin..., I've just peeled myself off the floor after suffering some kind of visual overload, yes the scenes were very flashy, very colorful, and I couldn't keep up with the story because I was being overwhelmed by the seriously over-the-top special effects. From what I gathered, The Chronicles of Riddick could be considered a decent film from a different opinion, but in my opinion I wasn't a fan hence why I rated it lower, not necessarily a bad film it just didn't float my boat in any way. An exhibition of elaborate set designs and headache inducing special effects, this is proper Sci-Fi, I just wish I could've understood it. The Chronicles of Riddick is the sequel to (the much better) Pitch Black, that was a film I enjoyed and actually could follow, and Vin Diesel was fantastic in creating the allure and mystique that surrounds the titular character, Richard Riddick; yet in this film, the mystique and coolness was sadly replaced by confusion.Unusual for one of my reviews but I really can't elaborate on the story or the plot, because somewhere along the viewing I got lost and couldn't find the thread to get back into it, but, that's the point, it's a confusing film so I will base my review on that very point..., if you can watch The Chronicles of Riddick and understand it, well you must be a smarter guy than I.

NateWatchesCoolMovies David Twohy's Pitch Black was a dank, murky horror sci fi that took place inside a claustrophobic killing jar, all the action unfolding on one planet, and over a short amount of time. With The Chronicles Of Riddick, he lifts the lid off that jar, unveiling more planets, characters, creatures and broadening both the scope of what is seen visually and what takes place in the story. What began as a simple human vs. monster survival tale crystallizes into a full blown operatic space saga, and I loved every minute of it. Now there are a lot of people who hate it, and fine for them if they want to live inside such negativity. I was sold after the intro, in which a snarky, canine - like bounty hunter (Nick Chinlund) chases a haggard looking Riddick a across the bizarre, jagged face of a planet that would make the asteroid from Armageddon sweat. This film takes place sometime after Pitch Black, the few survivors scattered across the galaxy. There's a price on Riddick's head, which Toombs (Chinlund) intends to collect. Riddick unwittingly wanders into the path of something far more dangerous in his evasive efforts: a powerful, fascist master race known as the Necromongers are cutting a swath through the known universe, converting or killing anyone they find. They are led by the "" (Colm Feore), and commanded by Lord Vaako (another badass character for Karl Urban to another do to his rogue's gallery), a nasty piece of work who is further soured by his insidious wife (Thandie Newton). Riddick has encounter with them, as well as an old friend from former times (an all too brief Keith David) and is taken far and away, to a dangerous prison on a planet called Crematoria, where the wrecking ball of a sun fries everything on the surface every half hour or so. It all happens fast (and furious hehe), in a somewhat rushed frenzy of sci fi action, cool effects and surprisingly vicious antics for a PG-13 flick. Diesel was born to play Riddick, a growling night wolf of an antihero and endlessly watchable. There's all sorts of half Cooke ideas running around, some fun and others left unexplored. There's a prophecy involving the Purifier (Linus Roache) who has ties to Riddick's tragic past and the fate of his race, a strange elemental (Judi Dench looking confused), another person from his past (Alexa Davalos) and other intrigue involving Urban. Best to sit back and let it wash over you like the fun it is. Chinlund is hilarious as Toombs, the only character who seems to have wandered in from inner city L.A., a wide ass prick with a hate streak for Riddick and that old school charisma that carries scenes. The set pieces are exhilarating and make up for the plot which is at times spread too thinly, but never hurts the film. I love it, watch it all the time, let the haters sulk... more for us.

winopaul I loved the guy who said this has a great plot. The detailed plot summary: Run, hide, fight, run, hide, fight, fight, run, captured. Fight, run, fight, hide, fight, sunburn, run, hide, fight, hide, sunburn, parlay. Sneak, hide, fight, hide, fight, fight, fight, sad, rule the universe.The truly outstanding thing about this movie were the fluff babes. There was fluff babe high-tone that combined sweet innocence and teen prostitute in ways I am still grappling with. I like her. A lot. Double points for looking to be a woman of color in what is apparently a white people everywhere movie. Then there was fluff babe dutiful wife, who would also be someone you would like to not only get busy with, but hang around for years and years, despite her annoying pre-fluff babe precocious spawn child. The fluff babe tomboy 1 was great in the ship, not sure when she got written out. Finally, fluff babe tomboy 2 combined the best of fluff-babe high-tone with fluff babe tomboy 1 to be really desirable as fluff babe convict. Whoever cast these women should get an Oscar. I love them all.I did have problems making sense of many plot elements. Like when gray guys attack the other gray guys, except then there is a big zappo, and a third batch of gray guys walks in. Who the heck is who? Can't we give one side red hair or maybe even use colors for the different uniforms? Another confusion was between fluff babe tomboy 1/crewman and fluff babe tomboy 2/convict. I am pretty sure they were two different people, I mean, why would they clap the fluff babe tomboy 1 in irons? It would have helped if they made it more clear when the first one died or stumbled off into the sunburn. Maybe she wanted more than SAG minimum so they just stopped filming her one day. It gets back to the previous problem, that the art director thought that every single thing should be gray. Is the future universe a big Portland cement plant? I actually like Vin, who is competent despite the slaggers giving him guff. He has a great voice, he can act well, he is physically fit, and while not exactly whupped with the ugly stick, he is no Hollywood airhead beauty either. What I hate is when they give him cringe-worthy lines like "I haven't smelled beautiful in a long time." Is sounds like some has-been white guy come-on line in a dance club and it is very off-putting. Maybe its Vin trying to be Schwarzenegger, or maybe it is the writers. Leave the cutesy comments to Arnold, and just play it straight, it would have been 100 times better.They spent a lot of money on special effects. Some are Battlestar Galactica quality, but most are pretty good. This is 11 years old now, and the effects do look dated. Fights and explosions will not carry a film, so that was money wasted. In my book, this was a flop. It had a big budget and barely broke even with its worldwide revenue much less its domestic box office.So, a star for Vin, I really do like him, a star for the effects, and three stars for the women. Unlike Total Recall, this film did not do bad because it's plot was complicated. It did bad because its plot was silly. It ended begging for yet another sequel. Let's hope they don't make one.

TxMike I have been seeing the Riddick movies in mostly a reverse order. A few weeks ago I first saw the recent (2013) one "Riddick", where he had to escape the Mercs, then I saw the first, "Pitch Black" plus the animated short. Now I have finally seen this one, "Chronicles of Riddick." This one is a very dark theme, as the main nemesis are the race calling themselves the Necromongers. It is derived from the prefix 'necro-', which means death, and the term 'necrophilia' which is 'love of the dead.' According to this story, the Necromongers seek to convert all races in the universe into their type, which involves passing through a state of death, or perhaps near death.I found this explanation online. " The Necromongers practice a religion known as Necroism. The primary belief of this religion is that life in this universe is a mistake which must be corrected. This revelation was brought about by the discovery of the Underverse, which is described as another universe in which life is cherished and even the dead are brought back to life. The Underverse is both the afterlife of the Necromongers and the ultimate destination of their interstellar journey. Entrance to the Underverse is restricted to those who follow the Necromonger religion "Vin Diesel is of course back as Riddick, and as this movie starts he is hunted down on a planet where he has been in seclusion for a few years. He wants to find out who revealed his location, and that journey takes him to the Necromongers.The chief among them is Colm Feore as Lord Marshal. An associate (for lack of a better description) is Thandie Newton as Dame Vaako. Even the great Judi Dench has a role, as the half-invisible Aereon. It wasn't totally clear to me whether she was good or bad. And the key hunter was Karl Urban as Vaako.I will not pretend to understand the interactions of all the characters, or of all the consequences of the various battles. For me the movie was just fun entertainment, a space travel and alien life fantasy. Most of the fun is in seeing the various ways that Riddick, often seemingly imprisoned with zero hope of escape, actually escapes and gains the upper hand on the bad guys. Just a fun movie to view for light entertainment.