I`m In The Dark As To Why People Liked This

Rating: 3/10 (17 November 2002)

PITCH BLACK is a film that suffers from being " overdirected " . Overdirected ! What`s that Theo ? Overdirected is when the director goes over the top and starts getting overly intrusive on screen and tries to be the star of the movie . Examples of these films are NO BLADE OF GRASS , THE LIMEY , the CAPE FEAR remake JFK , NIXON and possibly THE PLEDGE and TRAFFIC but whereas these films had their good points or at least potential PITCH BLACK is nothing more than an irritating ALIEN clones B movie no matter how much David Twohy tries to disguise it . What`s with the MTV visuals ? or the picture turning to negative ? or the blue and yellow tints ? Why`s there slo mo scenes ? Can`t we watch a film without MTV gimmicks ? And has anyone noticed the amount of scenes where Riddick is in full view of everyone but no one seems to notice him ?
Talking of Riddick I couldn`t help noticing the amount of people praising his performance and well buffed physique which led me to believe the reason for the film`s popularity is down to females drooling over Vin Diesel ,ie for sexist reasons . But David Twohy evens up any sexist score by casting Radha Mitchell as the lead heroine , she`s well fit and the director knows it , notice the amount of times her character leans over exposing her ample cleavage . As a red blooded hetrosexist did I enjoy these cleavage scenes ? I sure did . Did these scenes endear the rest of the film to me ? No. PB still sucked
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As suffocating as the direction is it`s the script that`s the main fault of this lousy film . Some reviewers have pointed out the lack of logic and plot holes and I`m surprised more people haven`t because they`re so obvious you can`t miss them , for example what were this cosmopolitan band of humans doing on the spaceship in the first place ? If there`s no signs of any life then what have these flesh eating aliens been eating all this time ? An eclipse how inconvenient . Oh hold on the serial killer has had an operation a while back where he`s able to see in the dark , hey maybe he can read the future and found out he`d be crashlanding onto a planet populated by nocturnal flesh eating monsters . How convenient , as is the fact that these monsters suddenly turn into cannibals every time the humans are low on light and it`s also very strange the amount of scenes there are where it`s very dark and no one gets attacked compared with the amount of scenes where people are attacked when it`s not so dark . Oh and you just know that the serial killer won`t kill anyone unless they`re a corrupt law enforcer and will make it all the way to a sequel. Hmmm , just how distasteful is that ? the serial killer survives while anyone commiting the sin of wanting to stay alive meets with a brutal end .
Did I like anything about this film apart from Ms Mitchell`s breasts ? Not really except the alien sound effect which seems stolen from DOCTOR WHO . Watch the 1973 adventure PLANET OF THE DALEKS and compare the jungle sound FX to the ones used here. They both sound identical