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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ddvmor" data-source="post: 1748392" data-attributes="member: 10650">(This may already have been discussed, but I couldn't find a thread on it.  Feel free to ridicule (Riddck-ule?..ok, maybe it's not so funny) me if I'm just being dumb and missed it.)I went to see Chronicles of Riddick last night.  All the reviews I'd read indicated that it was somewhere between 'dire' and 'mediochre'.  I actually really enjoyed it despite the not-so-subtle influences of Dune, LotR and so-on.The two surviving characters from Pitch Black [spoiler] seemed more like set dressing - both getting killed at key moments merely to give Riddick an excuse to get p***ed off.  In Kira's case particularly, it seemed a bit of a waste of a character with plenty of potential (although she was a bit 2D). [/spoiler]I thought where the story was left at the end [SPOILER]with Riddick being hailed as the leader of the nasty, nasty Necromongers[/SPOILER] made the entire movie feel like a preamble for the next (assuming them make one) movie which has the potential for being fantastic (albeit derivative again of every other sci fi/fantasy movie ever made).The special effects were mostly pretty great, although some of the wide shots of Helion Prime were a bit cartoony.  The action was fantastic - some nice cinematography going on in places.  Vin Desil's performance was pretty good (did you know that he was a stage actor before he started making dumb action movies?  It occasionally shows through the menacing stares and growling).Just interested in what everone else thought of the movie and where they see the story going...</blockquote>

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