Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Pitch black on its own was a great sci-fi movie due to its unique story. This on the other hand is its dumb annoying younger brother who fights a lot with an empty head over the body. Sequels are often bad but this is very very bad.If a person judges this movie solely based on its action sequences, he/she might even like this. But as a whole its far from impressive. The writers did a terrible job. The overall direction was very average. One upside is that the CGI was good for the time period it was made in.Creators should consider making an action flick with amazing fight sequence around a decent core story. When its done this way a movie becomes instant classic. The previous movie did something close to that but this failed to deliver similar performance on screen.

David Twohy's Pitch Black was a dank, murky horror sci fi that took place inside a claustrophobic killing jar, all the action unfolding on one planet, and over a short amount of time. With The Chronicles Of Riddick, he lifts the lid off that jar, unveiling more planets, characters, creatures and broadening both the scope of what is seen visually and what takes place in the story. What began as a simple human vs. monster survival tale crystallizes into a full blown operatic space saga, and I loved every minute of it. Now there are a lot of people who hate it, and fine for them if they want to live inside such negativity. I was sold after the intro, in which a snarky, canine - like bounty hunter (Nick Chinlund) chases a haggard looking Riddick a across the bizarre, jagged face of a planet that would make the asteroid from Armageddon sweat. This film takes place sometime after Pitch Black, the few survivors scattered across the galaxy. There's a price on Riddick's head, which Toombs (Chinlund) intends to collect. Riddick unwittingly wanders into the path of something far more dangerous in his evasive efforts: a powerful, fascist master race known as the Necromongers are cutting a swath through the known universe, converting or killing anyone they find. They are led by the "" (Colm Feore), and commanded by Lord Vaako (another badass character for Karl Urban to another do to his rogue's gallery), a nasty piece of work who is further soured by his insidious wife (Thandie Newton). Riddick has encounter with them, as well as an old friend from former times (an all too brief Keith David) and is taken far and away, to a dangerous prison on a planet called Crematoria, where the wrecking ball of a sun fries everything on the surface every half hour or so. It all happens fast (and furious hehe), in a somewhat rushed frenzy of sci fi action, cool effects and surprisingly vicious antics for a PG-13 flick. Diesel was born to play Riddick, a growling night wolf of an antihero and endlessly watchable. There's all sorts of half Cooke ideas running around, some fun and others left unexplored. There's a prophecy involving the Purifier (Linus Roache) who has ties to Riddick's tragic past and the fate of his race, a strange elemental (Judi Dench looking confused), another person from his past (Alexa Davalos) and other intrigue involving Urban. Best to sit back and let it wash over you like the fun it is. Chinlund is hilarious as Toombs, the only character who seems to have wandered in from inner city L.A., a wide ass prick with a hate streak for Riddick and that old school charisma that carries scenes. The set pieces are exhilarating and make up for the plot which is at times spread too thinly, but never hurts the film. I love it, watch it all the time, let the haters sulk... more for us.

I loved the guy who said this has a great plot. The detailed plot summary: Run, hide, fight, run, hide, fight, fight, run, captured. Fight, run, fight, hide, fight, sunburn, run, hide, fight, hide, sunburn, parlay. Sneak, hide, fight, hide, fight, fight, fight, sad, rule the universe.The truly outstanding thing about this movie were the fluff babes. There was fluff babe high-tone that combined sweet innocence and teen prostitute in ways I am still grappling with. I like her. A lot. Double points for looking to be a woman of color in what is apparently a white people everywhere movie. Then there was fluff babe dutiful wife, who would also be someone you would like to not only get busy with, but hang around for years and years, despite her annoying pre-fluff babe precocious spawn child. The fluff babe tomboy 1 was great in the ship, not sure when she got written out. Finally, fluff babe tomboy 2 combined the best of fluff-babe high-tone with fluff babe tomboy 1 to be really desirable as fluff babe convict. Whoever cast these women should get an Oscar. I love them all.I did have problems making sense of many plot elements. Like when gray guys attack the other gray guys, except then there is a big zappo, and a third batch of gray guys walks in. Who the heck is who? Can't we give one side red hair or maybe even use colors for the different uniforms? Another confusion was between fluff babe tomboy 1/crewman and fluff babe tomboy 2/convict. I am pretty sure they were two different people, I mean, why would they clap the fluff babe tomboy 1 in irons? It would have helped if they made it more clear when the first one died or stumbled off into the sunburn. Maybe she wanted more than SAG minimum so they just stopped filming her one day. It gets back to the previous problem, that the art director thought that every single thing should be gray. Is the future universe a big Portland cement plant? I actually like Vin, who is competent despite the slaggers giving him guff. He has a great voice, he can act well, he is physically fit, and while not exactly whupped with the ugly stick, he is no Hollywood airhead beauty either. What I hate is when they give him cringe-worthy lines like "I haven't smelled beautiful in a long time." Is sounds like some has-been white guy come-on line in a dance club and it is very off-putting. Maybe its Vin trying to be Schwarzenegger, or maybe it is the writers. Leave the cutesy comments to Arnold, and just play it straight, it would have been 100 times better.They spent a lot of money on special effects. Some are Battlestar Galactica quality, but most are pretty good. This is 11 years old now, and the effects do look dated. Fights and explosions will not carry a film, so that was money wasted. In my book, this was a flop. It had a big budget and barely broke even with its worldwide revenue much less its domestic box office.So, a star for Vin, I really do like him, a star for the effects, and three stars for the women. Unlike Total Recall, this film did not do bad because it's plot was complicated. It did bad because its plot was silly. It ended begging for yet another sequel. Let's hope they don't make one.

SPOILER ALERT---This movie is TERRIBLE. The acting, the script...TERRIBLE. The special effects..not so bad actually. I will admit that I've seen worse acting, but it was ME--as the elephant in my Second Grade school play. I was TERRIBLE. In my defense..my commitment was lacking...I wanted to be the Circus Strongman. I would love to interview Vin Diesel to ask what his excuse is for oozing bad acting all over this film, but i'm positive that I would find his performance as an interviewee unbelievable. The script made me weep for the trees that gave their lives to this project. A forest fire would've been a more honorable way to go. It was a mash up of incoherent rambling disguised as bad-ass one liners. They were bad, they were ass. They were definitely not bad-ass. The premise of the movie was not bad. The execution was....like watching an execution...if the victim was innocent and a bunny rabbit. I actually enjoyed the special effects though I suspect it was necessary after Vin diesel chewed the scenery out of every set piece. A waste of Colm Feore. One good apple cannot save the bunch. SPOILER ALERT--This movie is TERRIBLE.....and i've seen it at least a dozen times. I cannot look away. HELP!!!