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Excellent Performances
Considering that this was a low-budget film, shot in the Australian outback...they did a hell of a good job. Although the script was weak, Radha Mitchell pulled off an excellent performance. I believe that all of the actors in this film should be commended for turning what should have been a total bomb into an entertaining, action-packed joy ride. Vin Diesel was also very convincing as Riddick. He too pulled off a marvelous performance. The action was spine tingling and edged-of-your-seat stuff.

Pitch Black
The movie begins during an interstellar mission, with the crew and a dangerous prisoner all in cryo-sleep. The ship collides with a cluster of rock fragments, which penetrate the hull. The captain and several other sleepers are terminally perforated, and Fry (Radha Mitchell) assumes command. The ship crash-lands on a planet that circles somehow within a three-star system, where at least one sun never seems to set, and the surviving crew members have to fight it out with the vicious and cunning prisoner Riddick (Vin Diesel).

Diesel looks like a mean customer, and he is. He shares no fellow feeling with the other survivors, expresses no responsibility to them, does not consider himself in the same boat and thinks only of escaping. Oh, and his eyes have a remarkable quality: He can see in the dark.

The spoiler commences: Yes, night does fall on the planet, every once in a long while when all three suns are in eclipse,
they fight off swarms of bat-type carnivores who streak out of the ground after a solar eclipse plunges the desertlike outpost into total darkness.

Although the lighting never gets as pitch dark as the title implies, the movie is scary enough to make you remember when you needed a night light to get to sleep. And Vin Diesel, as a hulking, thuggish convicted murderer who turns out not to be as evil as he first appears, demonstrates major action-hero potential.

A great sci-fi horror thriller and I highly recommend it. If it is to atleast view it.

A definate classic - must see for any sci-fi fan!!!
While filmed on a small budget, and relying on the then-unknown actor Vin Diesel, Pitch Black definately delivers despite these apaprent shortcomings. The acting, which is the highlight of this movie, is believable and lends ongoing credibility to the story as it unfolds. The visual effects, as well, are unexpectedly well displayed and, too, serve to boost this film's ambiance and texture. On a more practical level, the interaction between the characters gives us the feeling that we are almost amonsgt them during their ordeal. The engima that is Riddick almost throughout the entire movie never wavers and never fails to disappoint. This one will be, in the years to come, considered in most critics' Top 20 all time sci-fi thriller lists. A definate must-see.

Just by way of background, and while other reviewers seems to prefer to reveal much of the story and plot, I think that sort of ruins the film in many cases. So, you'll want to look for other reviews and reviewers if that is what you are looking for...

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