Genre:
Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
As the movie opens a cargo spacecraft accidentally crosses through a meteor shower while on auto-pilot. The ship along with 10 passengers survives a crash onto a strange, brightly lit desert planet. Among the survivors are Carolyn Fry, the ship's docking pilot; dangerous criminal Richard B. Riddick, headed for a new prison; Riddick's captor, a bounty hunter named William J. Johns; a Muslim Imam with his three novices Hassan, Ali and Suleiman; a young stowaway named Jack; an antique dealer named Paris; and two Australian settlers, Zeke and Shazza.
Riddick manages to escape, and Johns leaves to track him. When Zeke goes to bury the bodies of the ship's navigator and another dead colonist he is attacked by unseen creatures and brutally killed. Riddick is caught shortly afterward by Johns, and Shazza accuses Riddick of killing Zeke. At Riddick's urging, Fry investigates a cave and discovers that some kind of vicious creatures exist underground.
Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Screenwriter and director David Twohy continues his intriguing career of crafting challenging, well-mounted science fiction films via limited means with this somewhat derivative but highly enjoyable action thriller. Most of the casting in Pitch Black is by type and thus instantly forgettable, though given the story's haunted-house horror movie structure, this is probably by design. However, the film is anchored by Radha Mitchell and the strutting, grunting Vin Diesel, relative newcomers who prove their mettle on the big screen with reflective performances marked by detailed, intuitive choices. As he did with Warlock (1988.), Disaster in Time (1992), and The Arrival (1996), Twohy takes what was intended to be a straight-to-video genre potboiler and transforms the project into something at least a cut above other examples of its type. Unfortunately, in all of these projects, the writer/director is at times overcome by shoestring budgets that hamstring his creative efforts to impress visually.
* Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick
* Radha Mitchell as Carolyn Fry
* Cole Hauser as William J. Johns
* Keith David as Abu "Imam" al-Walid
* Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Paris P. Ogilvie
* Claudia Black as Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery
* Rhiana Griffith as Jack / Jackie
* John Moore as John "Zeke" Ezekiel
* Simon Burke as Greg Owens
* Les Chantery as Suleiman
* Sam Sari as Hassan
* Firass Dirani as Ali
* Vic Wilson as Captain Tom Mitchell
* Angela Moore as Dead Crewmember
Format : MPEG-4
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 1.36 GiB
Duration : 1h 51mn
Overall bit rate : 1746 Kbps
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Width : 720 pixels
Height : 368 pixels
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