Riddick

Plot synopsis:
Five years after Kyra's death, Riddick has become increasingly uneasy in his role as Lord Marshal of the Necromonger fleet. His refusal to swear into the Necromonger faith has caused dissent among his subjects and assassination attempts by his subordinates. After the latest attempt on his life, Riddick strikes a deal with Commander Vaako: the location of Furya and a ship to take him there, in exchange for Vaako succeeding him as the next Lord Marshal, so that he can achieve what he calls transcendence. Led by Vaako's aide, Krone, Riddick and a group of Necromongers arrive on a desolate planet. Realizing that it is not Furya, Riddick kills most of his escort when they attempt to assassinate him. In the chaos, Krone causes a landslide and buries Riddick alive.
Riddick emerges from the rubble with a broken leg, which he sets and splints while fending off native predators: vulture-like flying animals, packs of jackal-like beasts and swarms of venomous, scorpion-like water dwelling creatures called Mud Demons. Needing time to heal, Riddick hides himself within some abandoned ruins. After he's fully healed, Riddick notices a vast savanna beyond some rocky cliffs, but the only passage through is impeded by several muddy pools infested with Mud Demons. He begins injecting himself with Mud Demon venom in order to build an immunity and constructs improvised melee weapons, as well as raising and training an orphaned jackal-beast pup. He kills the Mud Demons and reaches the savannah. After finding a dormant mercenary station, Riddick notices a series of approaching storms, and concludes they will unleash an unidentified threat. Riddick activates an emergency beacon at the station, which broadcasts his identity to mercenary groups within the area.
Two ships promptly arrive in answer to the beacon, the first a group led by a violent and unstable man named Santana, and the second a better-equipped team of professional mercenaries led by a man named Colonel R. "Boss" Johns. Riddick leaves them a message promising they will all die unless they leave one of their ships and depart the planet on the other. Rubio, Nunez and Falco are killed by Riddick during the first night, forcing a reluctant Santana to cooperate with Johns. Riddick later steals power nodes from each of the teams' ships and approaches Johns and Santana to strike a deal for their return. However, the conversation turns into an ambush: Johns' second-in-command, Dahl, shoots Riddick with several rounds of horse tranquilizer, and Riddick's jackal-beast is shot and killed by Santana.
Back at the Station, Johns interrogates Riddick about the fate of his son, William J. Johns (the mercenary from Pitch Black). When the storms reach the station, Riddick's threat is revealed as thousands of Mud Demons emerge from hibernation underground, awakened by the rainwater, and besiege the station, killing Lockspur and Moss. Johns agrees to release Riddick in order to locate the hidden power cells. Santana attempts to kill Riddick, who is worth twice as much dead as he is alive. Riddick, with only one leg free, beheads Santana with his own machete, something he had promised to do. The group then releases Riddick.
They fight their way to the ship, with Vargas being killed. Johns, Santana's man Diaz, and Riddick leave the ship together on the hover-bikes to retrieve the power nodes. During their journey, Diaz knocks Johns' bike over the side of an embankment, causing him to crash. He is then picked up by Riddick. After they reach the power nodes, Riddick reveals Johns' son's morphine addiction, as well as a 'spineless' attempt by William Johns to utilize a child as 'bait' for the creatures on the world they were stranded on twelve years prior. Diaz attempts to kill Riddick and Johns. Riddick fights and kills him, but a dying Diaz damages the only working hover bike, having already sabotaged the other.
Riddick and Boss Johns fend off a seemingly endless horde of Mud Demons while running back to the station. Riddick is severely wounded. Johns takes both nodes and abandons Riddick. Riddick begins to fight a futile battle against the advancing Demons. Just when it seems he is about to be killed, Johns arrives in one of the ships and shoots the creatures while Dahl descends to rescue Riddick. Giving him the other ship, Johns asks Riddick where he intends to go, before deciding he is better off not knowing. Riddick praises Johns for being a better man than his son and departs into deep space.
In the theatrical version, this is the end of the film, while in the extended version, there is an additional scene which takes place aboard the Necromonger capital ship where Riddick kills Krone and finds out that Vaako has crossed the threshold into the underverse - seen as a large hole in space surrounded by gas - to achieve transcendence where he is both dead and alive. Riddick looks out the window, indicating that he intends to find Vaako.

Tags: comedy, murder, violence, flashback, humor, action, revenge

Review:
A brief summary Act 1-Riddick is stranded on what might be his home planet and has to re-man up after becoming soft while leading the Necromongers (Riddick being the only person hard enough to ever soften up when taking over a galaxy dominating army) There is a dog in act one but it plays very well into the story and I personally got attached to the pup...think of Will Smith's dog in "I am Legend" Act 2-Mercs are brought to the planet and the fun begins...for the next forty five minutes the story is about the Mercs and Riddick becomes what we all love...a monster in the Darkness.Act 3-It starts raining...I'm going to stop there on act three because I want to spoil nothing...
OK big fan of the 1st one, and I do like the 2nd one (directors cut though) and I can also see why some did not like the 2nd, it has some issues but the main one was the ALIEN 3 problem, that been after Aliens and all its army and guns, ALIEN 3 was no guns no army......people wanted more of the same, which in this case its funny to see that a 3rd Riddick film which gives people Riddick vs monsters is getting "its a rehash" Not sure what people want from a film like this, its pure comic book action, and I loved it, but you have to see what they were playing with, less than half the budget of the 2nd film and half as long to shoot, this is a labour of love for the Director and Vin, by today's PG13 Hollywood standards its a miracle it was made as a R/15, as for the film itself they seemed to make good use of the low budget, some very nice setups and yes in parts the low budget shows but as a whole its good, and that about sums up the film...GOOD, I rate it higher than most of Joe public but I am a fan and get more of a kick out of it, and going by the others in the cinema the feeling was "a good action film" while fans came out "great, been waiting ages for this, now give us a 4th, finish the story" I will go see it again and look forward to the BluRay. Loved it !!.
Richard B Riddick is up to his old tricks again, and if you're a fan, you won't be disappointed, definitely a must see.Vin Diesel is great as always, playing a character that never ceases to enthral me, and the rest of the cast is great too.You know a movie is good when it makes you watch the previous movies when you get home from seeing it.
With a bounty on his head he calls upon the very people who want to have him killed in order to escape.Director/writer David Twohy certainly delivers a fan pleasing sequel that fittingly harks back to the first instalment's roots in both story linkage and tone.
While not as grand, fans of Chronicles will also be pleased with the stripped continuation back story and a cameo from Karl Urban's Vaako.It's a good piece of science fiction action entertainment with decapitations, shootings, spaceships, a hostile planet, yes it's familiar and debatably derivative as the characters get picked off one by one, but as with Pitch Black Twohy effortlessly manages to create a convincing environment with new memorable biological creatures which is no easy task, to his credit it's no often lighting strikes twice given how many forgettable alien creatures have been put on screen.
Yet, even though reminiscent Alien (1979) he manages to recreate what he did with the photosensitive, reptilians in his breakout 2000 film.Vin Diesel returns as the character created by Jim Wheat & Ken Wheat- Riddick, this time he rekindles his previous edginess but the 'one Riddick and his dog' aspect expands the character, sneakily retaining some likability (especially for animal fans).Given the way the production was funded the special effects are a mixed bag but serve their purpose.
Having watched the evolution of this character over the course of one very good Sci-Fi outing (Pitch Black)and one very passable Sci-Fi mega-production (The Chronicles of Riddick), it was nice to welcome him back to smaller budgets and the authentic claustrophobia that befits an interstellar fugitive."Riddick" is a film that delivers what its core audience wants: the story never strays from what has been established, although there is the unfortunate drift towards "How Incredible Is This Guy?" that afflicts so many film series (cf.
I've not come across any 3 movies in succession that have equalled this, except for maybe Star War 4-6.Vin, well done, keep up the great work and keep this character going for as long as it has a story to tell.
In this is a science fiction thriller Riddick (breakthrough film role of actor Vin Diesel) is at an unknown planet with apparently no life and where mysterious events spread across the land full of bloodthirsty creatures and he finds himself as a survivor who is marooned on a strange location .
I just couldn't wait.The Chronicles of Riddick was an epic adventure type of movie; Pitch Black was a survival horror.
Riddick does try to pull a few strings in the heads of the other main characters when the movie starts but one of them an idiot, another one is genuine good guy (which makes playing mind games really hard) and the last one is a girl who seems to have done an advanced degree in putting up a wall in the head.
Vin Diesel still got it and I would still wait impatiently if they'd announce another Riddick movie, but I would have loved the writer to breathe a little more life to the other characters in this one..
The first Riddick Pitch Black is marvellous, the second, Dark Fury is satisfying, the third, Chronicles, is incredible, a gem, I think I watched it 10 times (the Blu-ray version is so sharp).And this one is a real work of art.
The original movie where we meet Riddick was one of awe, a truly back to basic Horror/Action Title that brought an edge back into movies at the time.The Second chapter in this Saga challenged a great many fans of the first to take a strong look at where that Character came from, and what the future had in store for him.This movie takes both aspects of what we have seen of Riddick and brings them together while still striving to stay true to that first film, and that is why I gave it a nine.To be able to bridge both worlds, both idea's, while carving a path of death and destruction we haven't seen since that first Riddick film.
But it's a new planet with its own ecology, animals, and creatures: some of them dangerous- and it all comes in with the storm.In order to trick himself a way off the planet he sets off a mercenary beacon, and that is when the fun begins as two Merc ships show up and start competing as to who is going to put Riddick's head into a box.But not all is as it seems one of the Mercs is not really trying to capture Riddick or kill him and bring him in for the Bounty: he just wants the answer to a question that was posed in the first movie.
And it is a pretty interesting surprise as to who this person is.As usual we get to see Riddick kill Merc after Merc with all kinds of interesting contraptions, but that is not the point, something bad is going to happen and only Riddick knows: so how does he get them to quit shooting at him and listen to what he has to say?Eventually I came to realize: as much as Riddick hates the Necromonger religion- he believes it, and in the end he knows that Lord Vaako (a cameo by Karl Urban) was actually another man with a straight spine.This film has fulfilled my admiration for this character, and for Vinnie Diesel.
The catch, however, is that Riddick is valued higher dead than he is alive -- something we the audience know from the start, but Riddick doesn't until like the end of the movie.Just like in Pitch Black, things don't go according to plan, and we're thrust into another "long darkness." Now most of us who have seen Pitch Black start scratching our heads and wondering "why would Vin Diesel do the same thing twice?" You got me, but whatever, it works for the character I suppose.Sadly the film doesn't really go anywhere up until the last 40 minutes, and let's be honest, just like the first one it doesn't really go anywhere.
It's a nice film if you weren't expecting much in the way of character growth, because we've already had Riddick defined for us in Pitch Black and just like in Chronicles of Riddick he doesn't really progress as a character.
Riddick is an iconic character played by Van Diesel in three movies: Pitch Black, the Chronicles of Riddick and the newest installment Riddick- Into the Dark.
The first film was PITCH BLACK, an efficient low budget horror/thriller set on a dingy alien planet; the second was THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, which was a somewhat overblown sci-fi fantasy; this third production is a combination of the two.We're back on a smaller scale here, with Vin Diesel stranded in an inhospitable landscape with only his alien 'dog' for company.
This movie "Riddick" is kid of like the movie "Pitch Black" with a better story and way better special effects.
It earned $98,337,295 worldwide.The meager success of the previous "Chronicles of Riddick" movie was the reason why it took so long for the sequel to come out.I just hope that Vin Diesel is not discouraged by this anemic box office performance and continues investing on this cool franchise.
Johns was son in Pitch Black and Father was in Riddick 3rd named Boss Johns he was better character then his son in first one his son William was a bit of idiot as character but his father was more smarter he does a lot in this movie he was pretty good.
i like part when Riddick was fighting with guy, Riddick throws the knife and guy with gun shoot's it they both dodge it the same time in slow motion that was awesome this movie was good i think you should check it out it is Violent,gore movie with lot's of Action thanks to Vin Diesel for bring franchise of Riddick..
I was happy to catch a sneak preview of Riddick already on 4th of September, which I went out to see almost on a whim while not being a fan of the series nor space operas in general, and it turned out to be one of my most enjoyable and satisfying cinema experiences ever.To fully express my opinion of this third installment in the series, I feel a need to digress with my opinions on the first two films.I quite enjoyed Pitch Black, but was not thoroughly impressed by it.
What is even more mind-boggling, instead of throwing that script in the bin, he seeks and gets full support from Vin Diesel, now also the producer, to film that nonsense of a story.Riddick (the movie) from the trailer felt like an uncompromising and non-pretentious throwback to Pitch Black, but more visceral and self- conscious.
It simply delivers on its promise of entertaining you.Some SPOILERS below.Of the minor flaws I can mention the necessary but clumsy flashback featuring Necromongers, Santana character wanting to kill Riddick while they still didn't know where he hid the power cores, and the conveniently disappearing and appearing venom creatures in the third act, but I understand that without the element of creatures fearing light it was difficult to construct that part of the movie more convincingly and better.I understand that there are many fans of The Chronicles out there, that they enjoyed the references to Necromongers, but I remain convinced that The Chronicles storyline and universe is broken and can't be fixed, despite the passion of Twohy and Diesel for the mythology.
I am also happy that they tied in a nice transition from the second movie (Chronicles of Riddick) to help the viewer understand the progression and the reasoning why they are on this planet and the end goal.I think they could have done more and let the viewers realize that there was more hope but overall i would say this was a enjoyable film non-the-less..
The storyline is a little bit confused, especially if you forgot what happened in the previous movies, but you can follow it along good enough and make sense of most of it.The movie starts out very strong, with Riddick stranded on an inhospitable and deadly alien planet filled with forbidding vistas and predator type wildlife that would love nothing better than to snack on a human for a quick meal.
I especially liked the colors used, a lot of yellow and orange hues that are striking to look at on screen and its effective in creating a rich atmosphere of a forbidding alien planet.I thought the acting of Riddick and the other characters in the movie was good overall, and even though most of the characters are minor, the actors did well to create a memorable impression.The movie is no masterpiece though and has its problems (some lame dialog, some of the action gets a bit tedious, and the movie also runs too long, should have been 90 minutes), but it has a definite appeal for fans of the previous movies and fans of the genre, and is entertaining to watch..
I wouldn't say I was dragged along to the latest installment of gravel voiced bulk of confusion - Vin Desel's Riddick (Cert 15), but I wasn't really looking forward to it either, especially after the previous 'Pitch Black and Chronicles drivel...Our hero wakes up on a barren planet after being left for dead and then spends the rest of the movie trying to get off the planet whilst all the time behaving like a human being!!, (he cries, he's in pain, he cares,and oh and boy did he get old and chunky), I thought the planet a rather nice place actually, especially as i didn't see any cinemas with posters of upcoming Vin Desel movies..the whole thing chugged along without much rhyme or reason and I kept imagining that a 15 years old boy had written the script and was shouting from behind the camera "more tits, more tits" and trying to get as much (bad) CGI in as he could, the dialogue was actually more painful than the fight scenes "he tried to ghost me" growls some muscle head to another muscle head, I'm fairly sure that all with all the testosterone there was little space for important words..
I wasn't a huge fan of Pitch Black (PB) and Chronicles of Riddick (CoR) but I wanted to like this film.
Like all films based on Riddick and the Pitch Black Story, this one fell perfectly in line with the rest.
I'm a fan of Riddick and loved this film as well if not better than the others; not counting Pitch Black which is the best one ever.
These two groups of men (and one very tough woman) are now at the mercy of the strong, smart and resourceful Riddick, as well as the planet that just might kill them all.This may sound like a typical sci-fi actioner, but the especially strong supporting cast make the film very interesting to watch and Riddick's impressive survival skills and just the right amount of humor make the movie a lot of fun as well.
This, sadly, was my experience in watching Vin Diesel in RIDDICK.The movie had great production values and very believable special effects, realistic CGI, the story was a bit basic but entertaining enough, and the actors surrounding Diesel give their best with what they given throughout (the stand-out being Matt Nable, as Johns, who was excellent even).
The first Riddick movie, Pitch Black, was a taut sci-fi/action/horror blend with a strong cast.
'Riddick' is the sequel that Vin Diesel put his house on the line for, and you can see he enjoys playing the character, he's played his twice before in the original Pitch Black, and the more epic, but less well realised 'Chronicles of Riddick' The visual images of these films have always been very strong, and the same can be said here of the third in the trilogy.
Needing to be a great actor isn't really necessary when it comes to action movies, and it takes a lot for there to be an exception to that rule, but three cheers for Vin Diesel, he's surely managed it here in Riddick.
But maybe too much in that spirit, as the new movie at times plays almost like a remake of the earlier one.Similar to Pitch Black, Riddick tells a lean, self-contained story aside from a couple references to characters and events of the previous films — characters and events that.
I love the character of Riddick but the two movies which followed Pitch Black were both disappointing.
This film tells Riddick's fight for survival on an inhospitable planet, with monsters and bounty hunters after him.The first part of "Riddick" is like a sci-fi version of "Man vs Wild", but not in a good way.
I loved Pitch Black, I watched it before I knew anything about it and it was great, and then came Chronicles and I actually like that better than the first movie (even though it was supposedly critically shunned).
Overall, the plot and pacing of the movie is excellent - better than any Riddick film before it.The acting is also great.