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Riddick Trilogy (Pitch Black/ The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury/ The Chronicles of Riddick) |  | Directors: David Twohy, Peter Chung
Actors: Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell, Judi Dench, Colm Feore
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 7131
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 281 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9
MPN: 025192659423
UPC: 025192659423
EAN: 0025192659423
ASIN: B000EQHXN2
Theatrical Release Date: February 18, 2000
Release Date: May 30, 2006
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Pitch Black
Owing a major debt to Alien and its cinematic spawn, Pitch Black is a guilty pleasure that surpasses expectations. As he did with The Arrival, director David Twohy revitalizes a derivative story, allowing you to forgive its flaws and submit to its visceral thrills. Under casual scrutiny, the plot's logic crumbles like a stale cookie, but it's definitely fun while it lasts. A spaceship crashes on a desert planet scorched under three suns. The mostly doomed survivors include a resourceful captain (Radha Mitchell), a drug-addled cop (Cole Hauser), and a deadly prisoner (Vin Diesel) who quickly escapes. These clashing personalities discover that the planet is plunging into the darkness of an extended eclipse, and it's populated by hordes of ravenous, razor-fanged beasties that only come out at night. The body count rises, and Pitch Black settles into familiar sci-fi territory. What sets the movie apart is Twohy's developing visual style, suggesting that this veteran of B-movie schlock may advance to the big leagues. Like the makers of The Blair Witch Project, Twohy understands the frightening power of suggestion; his hungry monsters are better heard than seen (although once seen, they're chillingly effective), and Pitch Black gets full value from moments of genuine panic. Best of all, Twohy's got a well-matched cast, with Mitchell (so memorable with Ally Sheedy in High Art) and Diesel (Pvt. Caparzo from Saving Private Ryan) being the standouts. The latter makes the most of his muscle-man role, and his character's development is one more reason this movie works better than it should. --Jeff Shannon Dark Fury - The Chronicles of Riddick (Animated)
Taking a page from The Animatrix, Dark Fury is part of a new trend of bridging theatrical sequels. As an official product of a franchise, the 35-minute anime benefits from having the original actors voice the characters, including Vin Diesel as Riddick. This story opens with the new action hero and the two other survivors of Pitch Black already caught by a giant spaceship filled with dread. The sinewy leader has a unique--and creepy--jail for master villains and she has her sights set on Riddick. The film--indeed the series--is indebted to animator Peter Chung, who brings his techno style from his Aeon Flux series. His smooth animation for Riddick doesn't reinvent the character as much as give him a new, appealing fluidity. As anime goes, there's nothing really new here--plenty of action, cool killers, and dramatic spurts of blood--but it's a building block for how this genre might enliven movie series and sequels in the future. --Doug Thomas
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PITCH BLACK CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK:DARK FURY
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Leaves you wanting more! July 30, 2010
N. Wyman (Kansas City, MO)
The trilogy begins with Pitch Black which catapults the viewer into a strange world. We meet Riddick (Vin Diesel) and from the start we don't know if we are supposed to like him or hate him. The film keeps the viewer engaged as the characters deal with the unknown threat. The second film, an animated sequel, continues where the first film leaves off and keeps the story advancing as we learn more about the young girl. The animation style is dark but well done and holds the viewer interested; sometimes forgetting it is animated. The third film begins with Riddick on the hunt for a character from the first film. We are bombarded by stunning sets and imagery as we learn about the overpowering culture of the Necromancer. Can Riddick save the day or will he fall prey just like everyone else? This trilogy leave the viewr wanting more and hopefully Deisel and the production team will give it!
 One of the best Action Movies Ever! June 8, 2010
L. Coleman (USA)
This picture is flawless. Diesel as Riddick is phenomenal and should be considered one of the deepest characters ever in an action movie. No one could have played the role better. This movie is like a roller coaster with not a boring part in site. The story and plot is bordering on genius. The only problem I have is why the long wait for the next sequel to this. I heard rumors they are making it now but geez I'm suffering here. This is clearly one of my favorite movies of all time. Vin Diesel, get the next sequel rolling out please.
 Director's Cut Defective on Blu Ray June 1, 2010
Angus Uncleberry
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The audio is out of sync in the director's cut on my disk. I tried three differet chapters - all the same and unwatchable. The theatrical cut is o.k.
it is what it is... May 31, 2010
Will and/or Caroline C. (hampton, SC)
This is the third installment in the "Riddick" series, keep in mind the 2nd installment was a vague attempt at a filler story to give a little follow-up story to the characters from Pitch Black and basically introduce the character "Toombs" so his appearance and apparent relationship with Riddick in this movie doesn't seem completely out of nowhere leaving the viewer feeling like they missed something... Van Helsing did the same thing.
Anyways the movie is ok... personally I don't feel they needed to really clarify the Riddick character that much since the mystique of the character is kind of what I liked about him. I also felt the Goku/Frieza Dragonball Z aspect (if you're a DBZ fan you'll know it as soon as it comes up in the movie) feels out of place and the Conan moment near the end of the movie feels like they left the movie unfinished and are planning another sequel.
Anyways the movie in my opinion is worth a watch, but I honestly liked Pitch Black more. Sure this one is newer, has better production quality and a ton of explosions but it's just my personal preference.
I've seen some reviews on the 2-for-1 pack complaining that their movie locks up on their blu-ray for the "director's cut" but mine played fine and I have a cheap POS blu-ray player that doesn't even support firmware updates. I'm starting to think the firmware updates may be messing with some of these players.
Riddick done right! May 17, 2010
Robert Badgley (London,Ontario,Canada)
This two disc set from Universal gives us the Riddick trilogy of films so far produced starring Vin Diesel in the title role:Pitch Black(Feb/200),Dark Fury,animated(June/04) and The Chronicles of Riddick(June/04).Pitch Black contains about 13 minutes of extra footage while Chronicles gives us an extra 15 minutes.
Pitch Black is an uneven story about a cargo ship on its' way to port.Its crew are all in stasis when an unexpected storm of meteorites penetrates the hull,killing some of the crew and compromising the hull's integrity.The crew is automatically brought out of their sleep but the ship is perilously close to a planet and they end up crash landing on it.Aboard the ship is a Merc(mercenary or bounty hunter)and his prisoner is one Richard Riddick.Riddick is wanted in several systems and he has a frightfully bad rep.After the crash he escapes while the rest of the survivors do what they can to consolidate supplies.Everyone is one edge wondering if Riddick will strike as they go about their work on the hostile desert planet.The sun seemingly never sets and water is their first priority.While digging one of the survivors finds a hole and investigates.His screams are heard and Riddick is seen at the scene but flees.No body is found and a further investigation in the hole finds caverns inhabited by some unknown creatures that were the actual cause of the passengers terrible demise.
On a walkabout they discover a geological encampment that is 22 years old.Along the way they also stir up some of the creatures that were discovered in the cave.As things start to escalate and more people fall victim to these creatures the skies start to darken and eventually a long night arrives.This of course is the creatures cue to arise from their slumber in the caverns below and fly about the surface looking for prey.The survivors had found a ship at the gelogical encampment but the only way to get off the planet is to return there with fuel canisters.They do this but this time in the dark and more are lost along the way.In the end only Riddick,a holy Muslim on a pilgrimage to the second Mecca and a young girl survive the ordeal and escape.
This film was uneven in its' original form but the extra footage alleviates this a little,just a little.The film sets up a kind of stop and start routine throughout,sidetracked more often than not by the constant internal squabbling of the survivors.I give this version 3 1/2 stars as opposed to the original version's 3 stars.
Dark Fury was released around the same time as Chronicles and is a 35 minute anime' starring the original voices from Pitch Black and Chronicles.It is a bridge between the two movies and it manages to tell a very interesting story in that short amount of time.It concerns a collector of beings;beings with the most ruthless reputations in the galaxy.The collectors' ship is a virtual museum piece of displayed frozen entities.Continuing with the last moments of Pitch Black as the girl,the holy man and Riddick are leaving the desert planet,here they get captured by the collector.There is an initial struggle but Riddick and his charges succumb to her forces.She wants to see exactly how Riddick fights/kills before she freezes him so she puts him into a ring with two deadly floating aliens.In the end he wins the day and the three struggle free from her clutches and escape.She unfreezes a bounty hunter whom she sends after them and this hunter will be seen in Chronicles at the very beginning.
The anime' is very well done and directed by Peter Chung.It has a compelling story and the use of the original voices for each part enhances it greatly.I give it a solid 4 stars.
Chronciles of Riddick begins with Riddick being chased down by the bounty hunter from Dark Fury on an ice planet,whom he manages to escape from and head to a planet called Helion Prime.Here he seeks out the holy man only to arrive just as the race known as Necromongers arrive.Its leader is a half dead dictator who plans to take over world after world.If they don't submit and convert they are killed.Riddick is eventually taken prisoner by them but escapes only to be caught by the bounty hunter he eluded on the ice planet.He is taken to Crematoria whose surface temperature during the day disintegrates anything living in a matter of seconds.The "slam"/prison there is about 30 K's below the surface.It's a deadly place full of the most despicable criminals anywhere and who should he run into but the girl he escaped with from the desert planet in Pitch Black,now all grown up.At the right moment Riddick,the girl and some other of the inmates escape overland to a hangar where an escape craft is located.It's a race against the approaching heat of the rising sun and the prison guards who also want to escape.When they arrive some Necromongers are there to try and foil everyone's plans.
The Necromongers capture the girl and Riddick barely escapes with his life.He is saved by a Necromonger who stays behind.It seems Riddick isn't the only Furyan left as the Necrmonger reveals his origin is the same as his.With nothing left to return to the Necromonger walks out into the heat of the day,committing suicide.Riddick returns to Helion Prime and confronts the leader of the Necromongers in order to gain the girl's freedom,who it seems has already been "converted".It's a fight to the death but Riddick comes through in an epic battle but loses the girl in the process.The ending has Riddick sitting on the throne full of grief and very fatigued,slowly looking up and realizing the entire Necromonger army is at his command,and saying"You keep what you kill".
Epic is the word I would use to describe this last movie of the trilogy.Everything seems to flow well throughout this film and we learn alot about Riddick and how he came to be the person he is.There are side plots here of the Elemental who has predicted Riddicks return and that of a subordinate of the head Nercomonger who's wife would like nothing more than to obtain ultimate power for her husband and thusly herself.And it's all on a grand scale where the special effects are top notch and help to enhance the movie all the way.I give it 4 1/2 stars.
Technically the movies are all transferred very well and all are in their delightful widescreen format.The special features in Pitch Black are The Johns Chase Log,Feature Commentary with Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser and Director David Twohy,Feature Commentary with Director David Twohy, Producer Tom Engleman and Visual Effects Supervisor Peter Chiang,featurettes The Making of Pitch Black,Dark Fury: Advancing the Arc,The Chronicles of Riddick Visual Encyclopedia,and A View Into the Dark.In Dark Fury they are From Pitch Black to The Chronicles of Riddick: Bridging the Gap,Peter Chung - The Mind of an Animator,and Into the Light.In Chronicles of Riddick the extras are Deleted Scenes,Virtual Guide to The Chronicles of Riddick,Toomb's Chase Log,Riddick Insider,Visual Effects Revealed,Vin Diesel's Guided Tour,Interactive 360° View of the Sets,and Audio Commentary with Writer/Director David Twohy and Actors Karl Urban & Alex Davalos.
If you enjoyed the Riddick films like I did then you will definitely enjoy these special director cut versions with extended footage in Dark Fury and Chronicles.Dark Fury was always the weakest of the two(playing more like a poor man's Alien)but Chronicles more than makes up for the formers weaknesses.Dark Fury is a wonderful story bridge in anime' with a very appealing plot and the original voices along to give an authentic aura about it.All in all a must have for the Riddick fans in your family.
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