Riddick (2013)

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This film is the fourth installment to Riddick franchise. Richard B. Riddick finds himself stranded on a sun-scorched alien planet. Riddick fights alien creatures in order to survive. As a last minute plan, he sends out a distress beacon for a shuttle. One carries a bounty hunter, Santana, and the other carries a man from his past, Boss Johns. Riddick must escape before large amounts of rainfall cause rise to several volatile alien creatures. 

This film was directed by David Twohy. He is the director for the original two live action films. This film's story returns to the basics that audiences are familiar with and enjoyed with Pitch Black. However, it fails to inform audiences about the past events that actually occurred in the previous three films. This leaves the opening of the film confusing to newcomers of the series. The story as more mention of sex than any of the other previous films, but it is only hinted at. The story also presents more of a softer side to Riddick than the others. Riddick does maintain his carnal anger that leads to plenty of film violence and action. Riddick also continues to find ways to break most all of the rules of natural physics. Most of the action is kind of a blur, but it is thrilling to see on screen. There is a lot of computer animation in the film, but it works well. The planet it well created. The monsters are familiar to the monsters from the film Pitch Black. The dog was not only adorable, but well created. The limited dialogue used doesn't open the characters from being the stereotypical action film characters. Vin Diesel returned to his role of Richard B. Riddick. He was great reprising his role. Unfortunately, he spent a lot of time growling and pissing people off. Matt Nable played the role of Boss Johns. His character was too unfavorable to be liked. Jordi Molla played the role of Santana. He was a little too obvious being the butt hole character, but he was great at it. Katee Sackhoff played the role of Dahl. She was the sexuality in the film. However her character did offer the twist of being a bad-ass fighter.

I give this film 3 out of 5 stars! It is a good action filled science fiction flick with limited dialogue and character development. 

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