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Just another cheap opinion but...

posted 16 years ago by Hotwyre6
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I just couldn't really get pulled into this one. The last 5 - 10 minutes were okay (after they broke out of the arena) but the rest didn't do it for me. I didn't find the heavy all that intriguing and I could really see no reason why her number one (Junner, I think) wouldn't just off her and collect the extremely high bounties on all the cryo-frozen criminals. Also, I think I didn't like their take on the mercs. In the films Johns and, to a lesser extent, Toombs were decent adversaries of Riddick, but the mercs in this film were made out to be little more than untrained thugs. It sort of took some of the mystique out of it for me, given that despite Johns' flaws he could handle himself well and Riddick was wary of him at all times.

Maybe I'm just unhappy that the Riddick saga seems to have died a Hollywood death, since I enjoyed both films. Hopefully video games will keep it alive.

Fear is the Mind Killer

[–] yarmen12 12 years ago

That videogame was dynomite, it was a perfect adaption of Riddick and I love Riddick and am a fan of Vin Diesel since I got interested from those storylines.

Chronicles of Riddick I like, once you understand it the film is much better. To casusal audiences it would have been strange though. The only major problem I have with this series is that in Pitch Black, Riddick isn't that powerful or as good a fighter as he should be, ironic as it's the first in the series.