Riddick Reviews

Not that it was expected to be a sci-fi masterpiece, but after an absence of nine years, you would expect a result a little better than retreading old ground.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A vibrant stylistic mishmash that works brilliantly in chunks but is ultimately too scattered to sustain any cohesion.

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Part of me wants to support this franchise on the grounds of how rare it is for an original science-fiction concept to get a full trilogy of theater-released feature films, but Riddick makes that damn near impossible.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Forbidding, sun-scorched, deadly. But enough about Vin Diesel's pectorals. Come back. We got more . . .

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

As a creature feature, Riddick isn't half bad, though it's far from truly good.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Riddick lacks the soulless, mechanised groan of the previous film, but even stripping away the excess, this disappointing jaunt has very little meat on its bones.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Twohy succeeds in staging moments both tense and funny, but they're fewer and farther between than one would hope, and the dialogue is served up with a heaping helping of cheese, especially when delivered in Diesel's low-frequency growl.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Put simply, it's not a great film but it's still watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

A poorly paced, generic action movie with cheap-looking special effects, only a step or two above the sci-fi fare that goes straight to video.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Awww, a heartwarming story about a Diesel and his digital dingo dog...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Gratuitous nudity involving the appropriately-named actress Katee Sackhoff (Dahl) fails to distract from the clunky dialogue and the film's climax is, frankly, Riddickulous.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If you were to make a comedy about an actor who makes cheesy sci-fi action movies, and you needed a hilarious clip of his work that underscored the awfulness of his output, just about any 30-second segment of Riddick would do the trick.

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Riddick disappoints.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Diesel's character never really gets scared. He's just arrogant. Morning, noon and night...he's a horses butt. That doesn't make for an interesting story.

Full Review | Original Score: D

'Riddick,' the overdue, and largely unwanted, third installment in Diesel's first big film series, is so full of tough-guy overcompensation that it makes the 'Fast and Furious' movies seem like understated character studies by comparison.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

The first (and one hopes the last) film to borrow heavily from both Alien and Old Yeller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

For a film about a killing machine who can see at night, it's fittingly ironic that the film itself is, both narratively and visually, a dark, muddled mess.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

A derivative disappointment that's more of an uninspired remake than a groundbreaking sequel.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Like so much in this film, Riddick himself is a special effect, a near-superhuman hero who can withstand just about anything and who not so much gains our sympathy as demands our attention

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It's flavourless: the aliens are unscary and easily despatched, Vin's too silent to be interesting, and the other characters are either dull or offensive.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5