DECENT SCI-FI POTBOILER - DIESEL ONE FOR THE FUTURE

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2002)

Despite taking its cue from movies like Alien and Predator to some extent, Pitch Black is nevertheless an effective suspense thriller, featuring a largely unknown cast ( apart from Keith David, who's appeared in THEY LIVE, MARKED FOR DEATH and ROAD HOUSE ). The hideous creatures were pretty well done, a nice touch being that they are sensitive to light and Vin Diesel brought an air of menace as the dangerously unpredictable SOB on whom the fate of the others depends. The story does have some inventiveness such as the fact that amongst the stranded survivors is a convicted killer and a cop protecting him who may not be all he seems.