The Chronicles of Riddick
Director David Twohy’sThe Chronicles of Riddicktrilogy began in 2000 , and the Riddick movies to date includePitch Black , The Chronicles of Riddick , andRiddick . In addition to this , there is a Sci - Fi Channel special , Into Pitch Black . Now a quaternary movie is come withRiddick : Furya . Starring Vin Diesel as the eponymic Riddick , the convict murderer / mercenary - warrior with surgically enhanced vision , the first movie was discharge with little fanfare in February 2000 . gross $ 53 million ( Box Office Mojo ) , it established Diesel as an up - and - coming action at law star . The first sequel , three years later , bring up the enfranchisement from niche into the mainstream and was keep up by the third film just under a decade after .
That the original plastic film managed to become the sleeper hit of the year and an instantaneous cult classic is all the more telling considering the class of its firing . 1999 is see as one of the all - time great class for film , specially for repulsion ( Sixth Sense , Stir of Echoes , Blair Witch Project ) . ThatPitch Blackmanaged to make the impact it did is nothing short of miraculous . WithoutPitch Black , there is noFast & Furiousfranchise . Diesel has confirmedthat a book for a 4th movie , Riddick : Furya , had been completed and that it is headed back to Riddick ’s home world with original theatre director David Twohy back , as well . It gives devotee hope thatFuryawill pair up to the best Riddick flick , so far .
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4Into Pitch Black (2000)
The regretful Riddick picture isInto Pitch Blackand committed the worst hell by creating a Riddick motion-picture show where he was scarcely in it . For those who have never discover of it , Into Pitch Blackwas a sequelmixing random clips fromPitch Blackwith scenery of a psychologist study Riddick while he was in prison ( Vin Diesel only shows up in a cameo in security department camera footage ) . There is also a law officer trying to find Riddick , which lead to a outlandish found footage section on thePitch Blackplanet . The playacting is subpar , and the movie ended up non - canon when several things changed in the big screen picture show .
3The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004)
get in 2004,The Chronicles of Riddickis to all the Riddick movies whatT2was toThe Terminator . Or , at least , that was the idea . Everything about the pic was swelled . With a budget about five prison term that of its predecessor , the continuation was far more space opera than quad repugnance , reflecting its PG-13 rating . blame up five years after the first moving-picture show , The Chronicles of Riddickwas heavy mythological themes , turn Riddick from an unstoppable maniac to a Campbellian child of prophecy . Though it boast some breathtakingly beautiful imaging , the drastic tonal slip does n’t quite work .
2Riddick (2013)
Riddickgoes back to the basics . The grand visuals and epic scope of the 2d film are give up in favor of a darker , grittier flavour , and a narrower , more focussed approach to the chronicle , with echoes ofThe Road Warrior , Predator , andThe Grey . Diesel ’s Riddick is once again a cruel killer whale looking out for number one , but he ’s grown and learn from his experiences in the first two picture . Abandoned and offend on a desolate planet , a somewhat ferine Riddick must team up with the survivors of rival mercenary groups who ’ve arrived in answer to his distress pharos to pull round hordes of alien beasts and each other .
1Pitch Black (2000)
When it comes to horror films , simplicity works best more often than not . The first film inThe Chronicles of Riddickmovies , and the only dependable horror film of all the Riddick movies , is signally unsubdivided : a disparate chemical group of survivors is strand on a bare desert satellite with eternal day . seek asylum underground , they are set upon by hordes of monstrous creatures and their only Leslie Townes Hope of salvation is the psychotic manslayer with surgically engineered eyes that can see in the shadow . That ’s as mere and straightforward a story as it gets , and it madeRiddickan instant cult - favorite anti - Heron .
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