I love
Pitch Black, but
The Chronicles of Riddick disappointed me especially the damn shaky cam and over-lit fake-looking sets. I didn't care about the mythology. Calling his home planet "Furya" was just dumb and far too obvious. Alexa Davalos was incredible in that sequel though. I really liked her character, and the film had a good ending. When rumors of another one suggested it'd go back to more
Pitch Black territory, I was really looking forward to it. Sadly, I was pretty underwhelmed again. The writer/director avoids shaky cam this time, but the film is full of cruddy CGI, and it's almost a complete rehash of
Pitch Black except they have characters you don't care about, a weak silly contrived ending, etc. The monsters are also fairly weak, and there's only one type of them throughout the whole freakin film. I liked his furry companion, but the CGI sucked. It was like a bad cartoon. Plus, after
The Chronicles of Riddick, Diesel's character has kind of lost his edge. You can't do
Pitch Black again without bringing something new to it.
I miss her.
It was better than the last one. I think his interaction with his alien dog was the best part of the film.
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Yeah, I liked the idea of his alien dog, but I hated the bad CGI. Still though, I would probably agree it's better than the last one; however, to me, it doesn't come anywhere close to the first, which I really want to watch again now.
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