Riddick Reviews
3AW
Riddick turns out to be one of the most pleasantly surprising multiplex films so far this year...bizarre as it sounds, the film essentially shapes up as a quality chamber piece set in the dusty wastes of an alien planet.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
This is the real sequel to 'Pitch Black,' although it took about nine years for star Vin Diesel to accomplish it. The stories of Richard Riddick need to be R-rated fare, not the PG-13 stuff of 'The Chronicles of Riddick.'
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| Original Score: 3/4
Rip It Up
The third installment in Vin Diesel's adventures as über-badass, glowing contacts-wearing murderer Riddick begins like the original Pitch Black, then turns into something like a low-grade slasher movie with tedious Chronicles Of Riddick-like dialogue.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Q Network Film Desk
Twohy gets back to basics, returning the character to his B-movie roots in a stripped-down tale of competition and survival.
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| Original Score: 3/4
ABC Radio Brisbane
Put simply, it's not a great film but it's still watchable.
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| Original Score: B-
Top CriticDavid Twohy's film is scarcely original, but the sheer survivalist grind of our hero, against comical odds, becomes appealingly mad ...
Examiner.com
An economical and solidly entertaining film that recaptures everything that made Pitch Black such a cult favorite.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flix Capacitor
Putting the fury back into the Furyan, Riddick recaptures the stripped-back edge of Pitch Black, opting for an R-rated, back-to-basics survivalist romp that suits the character far better.
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| Original Score: 4/5
2UE That Movie Show
Riddick brings the character back to what people enjoyed about Pitch Black; Twohy's Diesel idolatry aside there's entertaining sci-fi action thrills to be had, once.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Illinois Times
"Riddick" a Bit of B-Movie Heaven
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| Original Score: 3.0/4.0
Creative Loafing
A step up from the 2004 slumber party The Chronicles of Riddick but still a few rungs down the ladder from 2000's pitch-perfect Pitch Black.
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| Original Score: 2/4
American Profile
It isn't a string of polished sci-fi pearls, but it does deliver pretty much what fans expect: action, creatures, effects, dry humor, and a grown-up mix of skin, blood and language.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Television Without Pity
I'm not sure that Riddick is an effective argument in favor of continuing Riddick's solo adventures, but it's a more fitting conclusion to his chronicles than the previous movie.
Shadows on the Wall
Once again, the film is so over-serious that it's faintly ridiculous, but it's packed with nerve-jangling moments.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Flicks.co.nz
Riddick justifies its existence purely through a good sense of violent fun.
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| Original Score: 3/5
A vibrant stylistic mishmash that works brilliantly in chunks but is ultimately too scattered to sustain any cohesion.
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
"Riddick" is a big step up from "Chronicles," with Twohy abandoning the failed epic scope of that movie and somewhat recapturing what made "Pitch Black" the cult hit it is.
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| Original Score: C+
Antagony & Ecstasy
The film regains its footing in a pretty terrifically-executed, if generic, final sequence.
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| Original Score: 6/10
jackiekcooper.com
Vin Diesel is hot again thanks to "Fast and Furious 6" and has the physique and force of personality necessary to carry this action film
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| Original Score: 6/10
Cinemaphile.org
One would suspect that a man who took such audacious risks in the second film would have a few more surprises up his sleeve for the third round, but I guess not.
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| Original Score: 2/4
