A Pitch Black Screen is Preferable.

Rating: 2/10 (12 May 2015)

Pitch Black (2000): Dir: David Twohy / Cast: Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel, Keith David, Cole Hauser, Claudia Black: Doesn't improve much upon a blank screen. Boring premise regards a spacecraft landing on a deserted planet that becomes infested with nasty flying creatures. These movies are getting too pointless to attend because you can sense the marketing team rubbing their hands in greed and deceit. Director David Twohy does his best but the screenplay is just another retread of Alien. Characters are airheads who fall victim to special effects. Only Vin Diesel as a captured criminal seems fitted for better material. He will attempt to lead them out of danger while winning over the airhead heroine and her band of merry men. We know that he will survive and that many of the others will not because they are morons. Radha Mitchell, Keith David and Cole Hauser play idiots. These creatures are afraid of light so when these morons band together to haul electric lights one idiot breaks from the group thus savaging the lighting. It is not difficult to guess his fate but it is likely that he came in last in any academic programs growing up because he is bloody stupid. The special effects are the norm here and the rest of the film is something to be screened only to chuck handfuls of gruel at. Pointless scrap that should be flushed down a toilet into the deep dark sewer. Score: 2 / 10