Pitch Black

I'll tell you what I liked about this. Outside of the ambiguous Riddick narration at the outset (which could mean anything), everything that is happening onscreen at the beginning of the movie is unexplained. Some backstory on the characters is eventually filled in via dialogue, but the producers simply throw the viewer into the thick of things without explaining themselves, and expect the viewer to put in the work to understand what they are seeing. I LIKE movies and TV shows that do that. I respond well to them. I like whenever a writer or director simply gets right down to the business of telling their story, and has enough trust in me that I will be able to keep up. I feel like I'm being treated like an adult whenever that happens. It actually doesn't happen a ton.

I think Riddick himself is kind of a bastard to be honest, and it's hard to believe an entire franchise was built around him. But we'll see what happens next. I liked the movie. Riddick himself? Not so much.

Unexpectedly cool: The black guy survives! Even cooler: He's Keith David! I can see why people responded to this movie.

There's Farscape's Claudia Black! And there she went! Aww!

I don't need to spend pages telling you this was a movie I liked. I simply did. ****.