Shameless rip offs don't make a movie.

Rating: 1/10 (9 October 2000)

Hungry, bored, plain stupid? Make your own Pitch Black!
Ingredients: 1 blanket, 1 flashlight, 1 pair of swimming goggles, 1 disgusting plastic cockroach that shines in the dark, 1 large popcorn and a coke.
The making process: Get under blanket, pretend that you're five and you're hiding from aliens.
Turn on the flashlight and put on the goggles. Spend 1 hour and 58 minutes of boring quality time with yourself.
Eat the popcorn and take a zip from the coke.
After precisely 1 hour and 59 minutes turn off the flashlight.
Wave the cockroach in the air and make scary noises. Take the goggles off, finish the coke and go home you sick pervert!
Now, if you didn't understand any of the above it means that you belong to the large group of people which have a life and were fortunate enough to miss this abomination called: Pitch Black.
Two major rights were violated during the making of this movie: first the basic human rights of the viewers who had to put up with two hours of this c**p, and various Copy Rights.
Pitch Black is an obvious rip off from two major science fiction sources, Isaac Asimov and the 'Alien' series. The idea of a destruction which comes on a planet in cycles of a few years, every time an eclipse takes place, is a shameless rip off from Isaac Asimov's famous book 'Nightfall'.
The stranded spaceship, the crew who finds a deserted colony on the planet, the presence of dangerous people on the crew and the endless wondering whether they are trust worthy or not - all this bear a close resemblance to the 'Alien' series.
In spite of all the great stolen ideas in it, Pitch Black is still a bad movie. There is no backbone to the story. They just crash on the planet and immediately they begin their rescue. Not much dialogs either, you could probably watch the movie silenced and still understand a great deal.
The main theme of confusing between light and darkness and between good and and evil is emphasized in the sudden change of roles between the 'law enforcing' man and the dangerous murderer. Yet instead of adding depth to the movie it lacks reliability and something called 'acting', and ends up adding nothing more than the element of surprise to the movie.
Of course one could claim that since this is a horror movie that is exactly what its makers wanted to achieve. But it's very clear when you watch the movie that Pitch Black was intended to be a cross between Science Fiction and a horror/thriller. And for some unexplained reasons it turned out to be a plain horror movie, and a horror movie it is indeed.
Oh, you think this is harsh go see the movie.