Review of Riddick (2013) by Anna B — 18 Apr 2016

Good grief, either Twohy is a one-hit wonder or Pitch Black isn't as good as I remember. Either way he's firmly established by now that he's just a terrible writer (holy shit that dialogue.

..mother of god that pacing... Why is this movie two hours long?!) and his directorial/aesthetic choices almost uniformly baffling and counterintuitive. Maybe I'm misremembering a review, but I was lead to believe this was a taut, efficient thriller, but every movement it makes towards tension is undermined by Twohy's apparent need to slowly explain every god damn thing.