The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004)

3 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

This was better then the first

A Customer from London England, 8th November, 2006

I prefered this movie to the first movie. It had an enjoyable story line.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Great Fun.

A Customer from uk, 29th December, 2006

Very enjoyable, great escapism.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Crash Bang Wallop!

Greg from Brighton, England, 8th October, 2006

I guess this film 'does exactly what it says on the tin'. Unfortunately the writing on the tin says make a film that isn't as good as the first. It's obviously had a lot of money spent on it - the sets, costumes and special effects are all up to scratch. Vin Diesel reprises his role from the first movie (flexes his muscles and keeps putting his goggles on and off) and they've even got Dame Judi Dench to turn up to film a couple of scenes as some 'ghost-like' apparition with a bad wig. The problem is they’ve spent so much time and money on the effects there isn’t any space left in the movie for the story to be given a chance! There’s a huge space battle, there are thousands of computer generated soldiers invading a planet, there’s a prison on a planet that turns into a fireball at every sunrise (called ‘Crematoria’ - gedit?), and there’s a bad guy who can tear your soul out of you in a very special-effecty-kind-of-way. If you liked the last three (or should that be first three?) Star Wars movies then you’ll probably love it.

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the cronice of riddock

A Customer from Ipswich, 19th December, 2009

if you like van desal you like this too i did

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Knuckle-dragging fun

Steve Sparshott from London Town, 25th June, 2009

Lynch's Dune+WWE+The Diesel+The Dench+Humour bypass=you do the maths.

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Accessability

A Customer from Plymouth, 13th June, 2009

couldn't access sub-titles for hard of hearing ! and couldn't get past the opening titles ! disappointed to say the least !

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The Chronicles Of Riddick

MAXIMILIAN from , 13th May, 2009

The Chronicles Of Riddick is an exceptionally well-made piece of sci-fi/action. The film is stunningly beautiful to look at: with lavish production, set and costume design. But, the story does not make one blind bit of sense - but it doesn't matter. I liked this film in the same way that I used to like DUNE (1984), David Lynch's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel - that was another film which was beautiful-looking but had a story which didn't make one blind bit of sense. A word of advice: watch The Chronicles Of Riddick and don't bother trying to follow the story, just put your brain in neutral, sit back and enjoy the stunning visuals. I first watched this film on ITV1 several months ago (and ITV1 has this habit of cutting the end credits off when they show a film) - so it was nice to watch the theatrical cut. When I watch a film, I always stay for the end credits because I think it is important to know about the cast and crew involved in the film.

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