Loved it, hated them

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2000)

This was a fine movie - like a "Survivors" [TV show] in outer space. But the characters were drawn so realistically (as in realistically flawed and annoying and too stupid to live), that I was rooting for the native fauna almost immediately. For my taste, Riddick the Convict was the only likeable character. Minor complaints about the technical discrepancies: will we still be wearing eye spectacles (like the milquetoast antique dealer) or using heavy iron chains to hold doors closed and keep convicts hobbled in an age of space travel, space mining and space colonization? I don't *think* so. On the whole, this movie was something a little different with fast pacing and interesting visuals - the ringed planet arising on the horizon was spectacular.