With writer-director David Twohy's mega-budget follow-up to his Pitch Black, what was once a purring engine has become a gas-guzzling, accident-prone Humvee.
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06/17/04
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Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
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Reviews Counted:155
Fresh:46
Rotten:109
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: As an action movie, Riddick offers some thrills, but as a sequel to Pitch Black, it's a disappointment.
Theatrical Release:Jun 11, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $57,637,485
Synopsis: The sequel to cult sci-fi hit PITCH BLACK sees Vin Diesel enthusiastically returning to his role as Richard B. Riddick. Director-writer David Twohy is on board again, building on themes established... [More]
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Reviews for Chronicles of Riddick
Flawed mythology but the entire production is first-rate and visually stunning.
06/09/04
Essentially a long-winded excuse for action sequences and Diesel making menacing faces, mostly over his left shoulder.
06/10/04
Top Critic[Judi Dench and Vin Diesel] appear in the same movie, and indeed, perform scenes together. Unfortunately, the film is so bad that even this novelty loses its appeal.
06/18/04
Aside from a sticky clunky beginning, in which the audience must be taught the rules of this sci-fi adventure, the film shows great discipline in pace and intensity.
06/10/04
The plot of THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK could be properly understood only after watching DVD extras.
06/26/05
Plenty of interplanetary fighting and outwitting, but mostly it's video-gamish special effects that overwhelm the senses rather than entertain them.
06/10/04
the result is like Lucas on steroids
06/09/04
Unwieldy porridge of effects and idiocy.
08/08/04
Makes you long for the days when all Twohy wanted to do was make a decent scary movie.
06/10/04
Although The Chronicles of Riddick offers its share of solidly entertaining moments, it doesn't hold together as a single, coherent motion picture experience.
06/10/04
Top CriticDespite a few goofily entertaining moments that are so over the top they are instant camp, the movie suggests that the hero's name derives from 'ridiculous.'
06/11/04
Top CriticSpace opera, a prison breakout, spectral zealots and an anarchist anti-hero - dumb, maybe, but this film has enough in it to make you see the light.
08/21/04
'Riddick'-ulous.
06/09/04
For people who like this sort of thing, this is just the sort of thing they like.
06/11/04
It may not stand up to earthbound critical demands but there's plenty here to keep the action fan in orbit.
06/10/04
Here's one Diesel-fueled vehicle that's neither fast nor furious.
06/16/04
An underwhelming sci-fi flick with Vin Diesel as the muscle-bound anti-hero who speaks with violent actions.
06/10/04
...a campy craptacular with elephantitis of the mythology glands, bookended by the most Duneish, Zardozzy nerd-fu since Battlestar Galactica.
06/16/04
A hodgepodge of Lord of the Rings, Starship Troopers, and the more recent Star Wars films.
06/11/04
Top CriticLatest News for Chronicles of Riddick
August 26, 2008:
Diesel Promises a Double Shot of Riddick 
His latest movie, "Babylon A.D.," might be running at a woeful 0 percent on the Tomatometer, but Vin Diesel has bigger fish to fry; according to a recent interview with MTV, the... More...
July 12, 2008:
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July 10, 2008:
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November 20, 2007:
A Third Installment for The Chronicles of Riddick?
Despite the underwhelming reviews and receipts that greeted 2004's Pitch Black sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, writer/director David Twohy still hopes to film a third... More...
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