Not especially smart, but enjoyable

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2001)

OK, so Pitch Black starts with the "wake up in hypersleep" scenario that's really been done before. OK, overdone. Then there are the odd lapses in reality during the crash scene and later throughout the movie. Look past all of that, and hey, it wasn't half bad. Don't expect the next Citizen Kane and you've got an hour and a half of escapism, creepy monster movie fun. The F/X (especially during the eclipse) are good, the monsters are fairly cool and sometimes scary, Riddick (the anti-hero) was well played, and there isn't the typical ending.