The Riddick Chronicles 2004
- Director: David Twohy
- Seen by this director: Pitch Black
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Thandiwe Newton, Linus Roach, Keith David
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Van Diesel – Pitch Black
- Judi Dench - All Is True, Murder on the Orient Express, Victoria & Abdul, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, The Hollow Crown, Bond etc, Hotel Marigold 1&2, Philomena, Vicious, My Week with Marilyn, Jane Eyre, Cranford, Nine, Notes on a Scandal, Mrs Henderson Presents, As Time Goes By, Ladies in Lavender, The Shipping News, Chocolat, Tea with Mussolini, Shakespeare in Love, Mrs Brown, Hamlet, Henry V, A Handful of Dust, 84 Charing Cross Road, A Room with a View, Macbeth
- Thandiwe Newton – Thor, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Crash, Beloved, Gridlock’d
- Linus Roach – Yonkers Joe, The Namesake, Batman Begins, Beyond Borders, Seaforth
- Keith David – Pitch Black
- Why? Judi Dench
- Seen: 18 April 2023
Five years after the first film Riddick
(Diesel) is still a wise-ass macho know-it-all, a violent, lone being hunted by…whoever.
Dench is some kind of wispy envoy who comes and goes and tries to engage
Riddick in the battle against…something.
I can’t be bothered with the story but it’s
all very dramatic with a cute kid who touches Riddick’s stony heart etc. There’s
more than enough action to send me straight to sleep.
Oh, all this dreary religion and macho
posturing! Oh, what a boringly beautiful vampy queen in a form-hugging golden
gown.
The beautiful visuals, the slight Shakespeare plagiarism and Judi Dench only help a very little.
½ * of 5
