The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2004
	Director: David Twohy (Pitch Black)
	Actors: Vin Diesel (xXx, The Pacifier), Judi Dench (James Bond: Skyfall), Colm Feore (Thor), Karl Urban (The Lord of the Rings 1-2, Dredd), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 25.06.2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The most wanted man in the Universe, Riddick (Diesel) has to come back to civilization after five years of hiding. He will find a world being invaded by the Necromongers and may have to fight, once again, a fight that is not his own.
Review: I am watching the Riddick movies in the wrong order, or maybe one could say from the less good to the best. I started with the disappointing Riddick in April, and now watched the previous movie The Chronicles of Riddick that I knew to be easy to watch. What I didn't expect was that I had bought the extended version, introduced by David Thowy. It adds some 15 minutes of scenes not always very useful, but never completely useless as they deepen the character development and the mythology of the Furyans. The space opera scenes are not bad (space battles, world invasions, Underverse, trips to various planets) although the editing of the fights is sometimes epileptic and hard to follow. The scene in which the convicts run on the surface of a planet ahead of the sunrise that will burn everything, while the wardens run underground, is brilliant. The whole movie is full Action, poses and punchlines by Riddick, in a global mix that is not too bad. After watching it, the following one really looks like an exaggeration of it: more action, more poses, more punchlines, in the settings of the original Pitch Black, that I have to watch soon to complete the series (I will not watch Dark Fury again).
Rating: 6 /10