Pitch Black (2000)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:56
Rotten:43
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: This sci-fi flick fails to deliver enough spills and chills.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A spacecraft carrying an assortment of passengers including Riddick (Vin Diesel), a dangerous, shackled murderer between prisons, is forced to make a crash landing on a barren, triple-sunned planet... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David
Director: David Twohy
Reviews for Pitch Black
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 2/5 |
...your typical run-for-your-life-the-monsters-are-coming science fiction adventure that requires one to park his brain at the front door of the theater before entering. Full Review |
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A fairly efficient science fiction monster film, somewhat in the mold of an old 1950s B-movie. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
If only there had been as much time spent on creating believable aliens as there obviously was on the landscape. Full Review |
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F |
Under the circumstances it's not really fair to blame the actors, whose amateurishness seems appropriate to the material (although Diesel's stolid machismo is so over-the-top as to be pretty laughable). Full Review |
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A smart, suspenseful sci-fi movie from director Twohy, whose underrated 1996 film, The Arrival, also brought visual imagination and intelligence to the genre. Full Review |
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Manages to surprise and delight, thanks to its small-scale attitude. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Hey man, it's February. You've already picked through all the leftover Oscar-bait you can take, so it's no time to be picky. Full Review |
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6/10 |
PITCH BLACK deserves to be recommended as a solid piece of genre entertainment. Full Review |
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D+ |
The derivativeness of the script keeps any tensions from building into any kind of scariness. Full Review |
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C |
Lackluster both as science-fiction and horror. Full Review |
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3/4 |
One of the best of the sci-fi spectacles cut from the Alien cloth. Full Review |
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8/10 |
A solid entry in the genre of science fiction horror. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The action scenes are good, if sparse. Full Review |
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B |
At least as much as The Blair Witch Project before it, Pitch Black shows us how disconcerting total darkness can be. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
By no means an excellent movie, or even a reasonably good one, but it is much better than most of its sic-fi brethren today. Full Review |
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Pitch Black is action science-fiction that barely qualifies as action and not at all as either science or fiction. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Some days its 3pm, I'm still hung over, and I just want to watch cheesy science fiction movies and watch stuff blow up. On those days, Supernova still can't cut it, but Pitch Black can. Full Review |
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Features some lovingly crafted effects -- notably director of photography David Eggby's bleached colour palette -- and some vivid characterisation. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Pitch Black
August 03, 2009:
David Twohy Talks Riddick Sequels 
They're still at the idea stage, but David Twohy and Vin Diesel are committed to continuing "The Chronicles of Riddick" -- and in a new interview with Shock Till You Drop, Twohy... More...
March 10, 2009:
Vin Diesel Talks Next Riddick Game, Sequel
Vin Diesel is out promoting his next "Chronicles of Riddick" videogame, "Assault on Dark Athena," so now seems like a pretty ideal time for a chat with GameSpot about the future... More...
August 26, 2008:
Diesel Promises a Double Shot of Riddick
His latest movie, "Babylon A.D.," might be running at a woeful 0 percent on the Tomatometer, but Vin Diesel has bigger fish to fry; according to a recent interview with MTV, the... More...
November 20, 2007:
A Third Installment for The Chronicles of Riddick?
Despite the underwhelming reviews and receipts that greeted 2004's Pitch Black sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, writer/director David Twohy still hopes to film a third... More...
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