Vin Diesel and his shiny eyes (Pitch Black (DVD))

Member Name: DarkAmok

Product:	Pitch Black (DVD)
Date:	26/10/08 (45 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Diversity of the crew

Disadvantages: Stupid looking monsters

Another Alien looking movie with a bunch of lost space travellers and scary CGI monsters...not really. We meet the "crew" of a spacecraft which crashed on the surface of three sun planet. A muscular convict who can see in the dark and which is being taken to prison by a policeman, a Muslim family - father with three sons, a pair of traders, a freaky French antique collector, small boy and woman co-pilot which is being promoted to captain as the previous captain's dead. The whole bunch is rather diverse - each of those persons has its own personality which is different than all other movies full of mercenaries teams, marine teams and bad guy teams.

Place of the drama - a planet which looks like a big Sahara with three suns. Everything's bone dry around a forsaken station which looks like its residents fleed in haste. It looks good although you can feel the CGI everywhere.

Monsters - to be honest. They are not scary. From far away they look like a flock of ravenous birds but with closer look well they look just stupid - imagine some kind of for legged freaky lizard with a tail, wings and I shaped horizontal placed head full of teeth.

The plot = easy to predict, as the darkness falls the monsters come out. Riddick (convict played by Vin Diesel) can see in the dark right? so he can lead the group from the forsaken station to the spaceship, avoiding the monsters which are afraid of light. But he is a bad guy - can he be trusted? And is he really a bad guy or is there someone else?

The movie itself apart from not to scary monster creatures is good. I enjoyed it and I was really surprised in the end. It's worth a shot however you will find out some parts that:
- should be scary but werent
- should be funny but werent
- should deliver but failed

Summary: Give it a try if you liked Alien