I watched in the wrong order, still liked the sequel better

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2007)

This was a movie whose story was just not that compelling. A space ship full of people crashes on a remote and uninhabited planet. Well, almost uninhabited. They do find out that there are creatures on that planet that come out in the dark. Lucky for them, the planet has three suns so it is never dark. Well, except when there is a full eclipse which, unlucky for them, happens to be coming in a day or two.
The movie goes from a "Flight of the Phoenix" type movie to a "Jurrasic Park" movie very quickly with the basic goal being to get off the planet. There are variables such as Riddick and Johns and the lack of water, but still there was nothing very suspenseful. You had large hideous creatures, you had pawns that were marked for death, you had a couple of heroes, and you had your cliché acts of stupidity that get you killed. It wasn't much of a story, the sequel is much better.