I know of better ways to waste 2 hours

Rating: 3/10 (25 February 2000)

I went to see this film with a hope that I might have been surprised. For the first half of the film I was. I credit the production team with making a great looking first half of a film. The washed out colours and hews helped create an incredible landscape. Unfortunately, once the lights went out this film tumbled into second-rate sci-fi. Pitch Black was not suspenseful. It was not scary. It was laughable. There has to be someone in the entertainment industry that can come up with a better creature than a cross between a hammer head shark and a rooster. The only reasons I gave it a '3' are because of the first half's look and feel, and the credible performances by Vin Diesal and Radha Mitchell.