Movies: Pitch Black

Watching Vin Diesel in FF4 reminds me of the first movie that had introduced him to this movie lover: Pitch Black.

Poster from Wikipedia

Some of you may or may not know this to be the prequel to the movie The Chronicles of Riddick which isn't really fair since you can tell that more money was pumped into the second movie than in Pitch Black although the plot to the first movie holds more water and was far less confusing than The Chronicles of Riddick.

Ladies, meet Riddick (Vin Diesel ala year 2000).

See me in Wikipedia

He was already well built then but it was his charisma as the anti-hero character that really kept me glued to the screen. That and the idea that the character was a wanted criminal being transported by a spaceship to receive his punishment only to have the spaceship crash land on a planet with vicious monsters that attack anything in their path when it is pitch black. He is armed with night vision. No, not with equipment.. his eyes were capable of that. Which makes it cool. And he doesn't really have the heart of gold, nor is he a hero of any sort. Which makes the plot cooler.

The movie was pure suspense and very entertaining; in a league of its own. More importantly, it is a movie that you should add to your List of movies to watch before you die.

Happy watching! Oh ya, he had already started his trademark mumbling back then.