Riddick (TBC) – starring Vin Diesel, Karl Urban and Katee Sackhoff, directed by David Twohy
GOGGLE-HEADED interplanetary anti-hero Riddick (Diesel) is back to growl his way through his third big-screen outing, bringing the popular franchise back to its more visceral, ‘Pitch Black’ roots after 2004’s rather overblown ‘The Chronicles Of Riddick’.
Following on from that second instalment, the space-convict with the ‘shined’ eyes is no longer sitting pretty on the Necromancer throne, having been betrayed and left for dead on a desert planet inhabited by lethal alien creatures.
Fighting for his life, he’s left with no choice but to activate a distress beacon that will summon the very bounty hunters he’s desperate to avoid; but the mercenaries that arrive are an even worse prospect than he expects, with one crew member having a very personal reason to hunt Riddick down.
Diesel teams up once more with the writer and director of the first two instalments, David Twohy, and the pair combine to great effect once more, with the third outing upping the enjoyment by lowering the stakes. Where ‘Chronicles’ was almost too epic – whole galaxies in jeopardy from an intergalactic invasion force – ‘Riddick’ returns to the claustrophobic tension of the original sleeper hit, welcoming back Urban’s intense Vaako and adding the mercenary Dahl, played by Sackhoff (‘Battlestar Galactica’).
It’s then mercs versus monsters as the darkness closes in, with Riddick, and his priceless ability to see in the dark – aswell as his more lethal abilities – who might just hold the key to survival.
Riddick will flex his big-screen muscles once again this Thursday 5th September.
