Thanks to the success of Fast & Furious 4 we’ve seen a resurgence of movies that run on Diesel. Case in point, two of his somewhat popular previous movies, xXx and The Chronicles of Riddick, are getting sequels. Not much is known about the new Riddick movie other than there’s probably monsters, Riddick will say cool things while looking cool, and hopefully someone will get killed via cup again. If this installment is successful I imagine we’ll be seeing more Riddick in the future. Whether that’s a good thing or not is up to you. Riddick chronicles its way into theaters September 6, 2013.
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There have only been a few time this year that I have gotten to leave the theater with a giant grin on my face, Riddick was one of those times.
I spent a little bit of time reading others reviews before I started typing this up and, I won’t lie, they kind of ticked me off. Riddick is a movie that took its 40 Million dollar budget and stretched it to the absolute MAX, I also feel like this is one of Vin’s best performances to date. There is no sexism in the film…There is no horrible see through acting…there is no moment during this movie when I was bored…It’s a thrill ride. A brief summary
Act 1-Riddick is stranded on what might be his home planet and has to re-man up after becoming soft while leading the Necromongers (Riddick being the only person hard enough to ever soften up when taking over a galaxy dominating army) There is a dog in act one but it plays very well into the story and I personally got attached to the pup…think of Will Smith’s dog in “I am Legend”
Act 2-Mercs are brought to the planet and the fun begins…for the next forty five minutes the story is about the Mercs and Riddick becomes what we all love…a monster in the Darkness.
Act 3-It starts raining…I’m going to stop there on act three because I want to spoil nothing… The End-Was exactly what I wanted and had me leaving the theater with a giant grin on my face.
WARNING: This is not a happy sing along movie with a perfect hero who saves the day in the end…this is also not “A Piece of Art.” This is Riddick it’s Muddy, Bloody, Painful and as always FUN!
There have only been a few time this year that I have gotten to leave the theater with a giant grin on my face, Riddick was one of those times.
I spent a little bit of time reading others reviews before I started typing this up and, I won’t lie, they kind of ticked me off. Riddick is a movie that took its 40 Million dollar budget and stretched it to the absolute MAX, I also feel like this is one of Vin’s best performances to date. There is no sexism in the film…There is no horrible see through acting…there is no moment during this movie when I was bored…It’s a thrill ride. A brief summary
Act 1-Riddick is stranded on what might be his home planet and has to re-man up after becoming soft while leading the Necromongers (Riddick being the only person hard enough to ever soften up when taking over a galaxy dominating army) There is a dog in act one but it plays very well into the story and I personally got attached to the pup…think of Will Smith’s dog in “I am Legend”
Act 2-Mercs are brought to the planet and the fun begins…for the next forty five minutes the story is about the Mercs and Riddick becomes what we all love…a monster in the Darkness.
Act 3-It starts raining…I’m going to stop there on act three because I want to spoil nothing… The End-Was exactly what I wanted and had me leaving the theater with a giant grin on my face.
WARNING: This is not a happy sing along movie with a perfect hero who saves the day in the end…this is also not “A Piece of Art.” This is Riddick it’s Muddy, Bloody, Painful and as always FUN!