Review of Pitch Black (2000) by Bill D — 06 Aug 2018
This film creates Vin Diesel's great role as a smoldering, ambiguous anti-hero Richard Riddick. The film starts with a great crash-landing scene, and then slows down to a simmer as Diesel provides the main angst.
But then the film takes off as bad flying aliens that can only tolerate the dark but attack like Hitchcock's birds become the film's central menace. Of them, Diesel aptly says "finally found something worse than me.
" The film then takes on the "And Then There Were None" vibe as we lose character after character. Writers Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat, and David Twohy include some wonderfully memorable lines, but inauthentic, poorly cast Muslims on pilgrimage distract from the main plotline.
This review of Pitch Black (2000) was written by Bill D on 06 Aug 2018.
Pitch Black has generally received positive reviews.
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