The hype and advertising they used alone will draw you in, and leave you with a bitter taste once you see it.

Rating: 6/10 (20 February 2000)

Pitch Black seemed like a great movie to go see. One main thing that will attract me to a movie is the advertising. Sometimes I will refuse to see a movie if the advertising is poor, even if my friends tell me it is a good movie. Well the advertising for Pitch Black got me, sadly. I did not know what to expect going into the movie, but after the first twenty minutes or so, I pretty much knew how I was going to be disappointed. The characters are all very weak, do not expect any great performances, or good development of any of the characters. And the character that made me want to see the movie, the creatures or big chickens, thats what they looked like to me, were not any better. The main problem I guess that made it bad was the story and flow of the movie. It seems like it is not going anywhere, just dragging along. For once and for all, it is not scary at all, please ignore the horror description of this film. The only horror I felt was sitting through it.