Riddick Review

I’ve never seen the previous two Riddick movies so this is going to be based on what I watched so here goes: Vin Diesel’s titular character Riddick was reluctantly crowned as the new leader of the Necromongers (or something like that) and he decided to visit his home world. He was tricked and brought to a different world, attacked and left for dead by evil Karl Urban’s minions whom I guess wanted to take over the throne.

And so Riddick had to survive by fending off the planet’s indigenous species and got to tame a crossover between a zebra and hyena as his pet “dog”. Later, he came across a bounty hunter station and activated the emergency beacon so that bounty hunters would come for him… and he could hijack their ship and get off the country. Two groups of bounty hunters came, one for his head as bounty while another to find out the truth about what happened to his son in the first movie, Pitch Black.

The movie proceed to become a mix between The Thing and Aliens as the bounty hunters hunt for Riddick and Riddick tries to get a ship while fending off scorpion-like aliens.

Vin Diesel is his usual tough self while the bounty hunters are a mixture of cool and arrogance bordering on stupidity. There is really nothing new in the plot that we’ve not seen but I suppose Vin Diesel fans and followers of the series would rejoice.

Vin Diesel fans? Not his best but passable, I guess. 3/5
Riddick fans? I can’t say because I’ve not watched the previous two but there’s plenty of that character.
Action? 2/5
Story? 2/5
Effects? Aliens ok but the part with them riding bikes in the rain is not. 2/5
I’d summarise this as only an average movie for fans. 2/5