Screenplay by Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat and Twohy. Starring Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser. Reviewed on March 16th, 2000. The preview hinted at monsters which lived on a sun-drenched planet but could only come out in the darkness. The film is set sometime in the future.
Men travel the stars in enormous ships, cryogenically frozen for the duration of the voyage.
One such spaceship is knocked off course and crashlands, killing all but a handful of the passengers and crew. The planet on which they are marooned has three suns, and as a result is a dry, blasted terrain without plants or water. Soon, though, the survivors discover evidence of a previous human expedition to the planet which appears to have been violently wiped out. Of course, the cycle is almost up and soon the survivors find themselves under assault from wave upon wave of the terrifying, merciless monsters which are almost invisible in the pervasive darkness. Their only hope lies with the enigmatic Riddick, whose eyes have been surgically altered to permit him to see in the dark.