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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShadowX" data-source="post: 1607618" data-attributes="member: 3720">Just saw the movie and thought it was a pretty good action flick and summer movie.  Here are some criticisms though:1)  Lord Marshall was not a good bad guy.  They didn't give him enough screen time or something.  They talk about his fear of Riddick, but you never see it.2)  The shaky camera marred what could have been some great fight scenes.3)  The beginning of the movie on Helion seemed disconcerting to me.  Maybe it was the flashing lights and quick cuts, but it gave me a headache.4)  For every nuance and intangible done right, such as the igniting of the atmosphere on Crematorium,  or the artificial sweat when he save Kiara on the cliff, there are a number of holes.  Like why is there any oxygen left on Crematorium, and why does the heat only spread where the light hits,  or what was that suicide group doing in the invasion of Helion.5)  They didn't develop the Necromongers at all.  They didn't explain what they did to converts, where they came from, why they are so zealous, what their religion is, or where they got their technology.  Nothing.To me the execution was off for all these great ideas.  All the characters could have been great.  Lord Marshall was Oedipus, Vaaku was a Brutus, his wife of course Lady Macbeth and of course Riddick who wears the unsought mantle of a hero.  The setting was cool and the plot was sound.  It just missed the execution.</blockquote>

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