rowanberry-46261 What can i say? badass character, plenty of content, a whole universe to explore. As a vin diesel movie this has got to be one of the best. No need to compare it to 'Pitch Black', Like Frasier in 'Cheers', Pitch black introduces the character and is a completely different movie in it's own right. (Although i do prefer chronicles)If you are looking for plenty of sci-fi, some cheesy lines, action and a pretty good watch, look no further you have found your movie. The only thing i wish was different was that the sequal 'Riddick' was more like the chronicles of riddick and continued to explore his universe rather than going back to a pitch black esque cinematic. Characters are meant to move forward and develop, not to go back a few steps because it was great the first time

jacobjohntaylor1 This is a great movie. It is sequel to Pitch Black. Pitch Black is better. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. It is very scary. This is scarier then Alien vs Predator and that is not easy to do. The third part to this sires is Riddick. Riddick is better then this movie. But still this is a good movie. 6.7 is a good ratting. But this is such a great movie that 6.7 is underrating it. This is a 9. See this movie. It is very good movie. It one of the best si-fi horror movie from 2004. Great movie great movie great movie great movie great movie great movie great movie.

SnoopyStyle Riddick (Vin Diesel) is still on the run from bounty hunters. He travels to Helion Prime to the source of the bounty and finds the Imam (Keith David) who he saved 5 years earlier in the movie 'Pitch Black'. His planet is under threat from invasion from a dark force spreading across the Universe. Aereon (Judi Dench) is an Elemental who is looking for Furyan warriors who can stand up to the Necromongers led by Lord Marshal (Colm Feore). The other survivor Jack had gone to look for Riddick and is now imprisoned on the roasting planet Crematoria. When the Necromongers attack the planet, Riddick escapes from the Necromongers and allows himself to be captured by bounty hunter Toombs (Nick Chinlund) He is sent to Crematoria where he reunites with Jack now called Kyra (Alexa Davalos). Riddick escapes with Kyra to the planet's sun ravaged surface. Lord Marshal sends Necromonger warrior Vakko (Karl Urban) and his wife Dame Vakko (Thandie Newton) to kill Riddick.I wish Rhiana Griffith could have returned but it's understandable to have a new Jack. She's a new age and basically a completely different character. The movie has a lot of big design. Some of it looks good. The problem is that the story is way too complicated. There are too many moving parts. The genius of the first movie is that the story is so simplistic. I wish it could use the same simplicity for this one. I really love the planet Crematoria. It would have been so much better to streamline the story to escape from Crematoria. All the stuff about Necromonger just mess things up. They could have set them up for a later movie. There's no need to pack so much into one movie.

TxMike I have been seeing the Riddick movies in mostly a reverse order. A few weeks ago I first saw the recent (2013) one "Riddick", where he had to escape the Mercs, then I saw the first, "Pitch Black" plus the animated short. Now I have finally seen this one, "Chronicles of Riddick." This one is a very dark theme, as the main nemesis are the race calling themselves the Necromongers. It is derived from the prefix 'necro-', which means death, and the term 'necrophilia' which is 'love of the dead.' According to this story, the Necromongers seek to convert all races in the universe into their type, which involves passing through a state of death, or perhaps near death.I found this explanation online. " The Necromongers practice a religion known as Necroism. The primary belief of this religion is that life in this universe is a mistake which must be corrected. This revelation was brought about by the discovery of the Underverse, which is described as another universe in which life is cherished and even the dead are brought back to life. The Underverse is both the afterlife of the Necromongers and the ultimate destination of their interstellar journey. Entrance to the Underverse is restricted to those who follow the Necromonger religion "Vin Diesel is of course back as Riddick, and as this movie starts he is hunted down on a planet where he has been in seclusion for a few years. He wants to find out who revealed his location, and that journey takes him to the Necromongers.The chief among them is Colm Feore as Lord Marshal. An associate (for lack of a better description) is Thandie Newton as Dame Vaako. Even the great Judi Dench has a role, as the half-invisible Aereon. It wasn't totally clear to me whether she was good or bad. And the key hunter was Karl Urban as Vaako.I will not pretend to understand the interactions of all the characters, or of all the consequences of the various battles. For me the movie was just fun entertainment, a space travel and alien life fantasy. Most of the fun is in seeing the various ways that Riddick, often seemingly imprisoned with zero hope of escape, actually escapes and gains the upper hand on the bad guys. Just a fun movie to view for light entertainment.