Delivers exactly what you want and expect from this type of film

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2000)

As far as sci-fi/actions films go, Pitch Black is solid and enjoyable. The effects are pretty good, some of the characters are okay (though a few are pretty terrible and you find yourself hoping that the cast is eaten in order of acting talent, which is exactly what happens) and there is a sufficient amount of suspense to keep the thing running.
If you forgive a few of the fairly major plot holes (eg1: the odds of arriving on a planet on the exact day of a solar eclipse which occurs once every 16 years.....; eg2: it's a scientifc impossibility for just one form of life to live on a planet - once they've eaten everything else, they can't just survive by eating eachother (as suggested in the film)) you'll enjoy this film. You won't love it, but you won't regret the price of admission (as you might with films like Mission to Mars, Sphere, Deep Blue Sea, Lake Placid, Aliens 3 and 4, Phantom Menace etc).