Decent movie. Neither great nor horrible.

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2001)

What can I say? Pitch Black is a decent movie. It's not a bad film, but it's far from being a great film either.
Everything about the film is very average. The special FX are nothing to drool about. The actors are mostly people you've never heard of. And the film itself is just a typical cookie-cutter scifi flick.
The plot is fairly predictable, and you never really get scared at any point in the movie. It's another clone of Ridley Scott's "Alien" movie... right down to the aliens munching away at the survivors one lunch at a time. The problem is, while watching the film I could predict which survivor is voted off his life... in the correct order, no less. That's how predictable the characters were.
There's really nothing new in this film that scifi fans haven't seen in 100 other movies. I do not know the specifics of where, when, and who made this movie... but it sure felt like a low-budget movie with mid-budget special FX.
As cliched as Pitch Black is, it's not bad at all. It's a decent, acceptable movie. Decent scifi films are hard to come by these days. Pitch Black is one of the best scifi movies to have come out in the past two years. Unfortunately, that says more about the quality of recent scifi films than a compliment to Pitch Black.
I'd rate it 6.3/10.