Pitch Black (DVD) Reviews

Are you afraid of the dark? Well, you should be! Because Pitch Black is an exciting, edge of your seat Sci-fi horror thriller. The basic premise of the film is that a cargo ship, transporting people to a distant planet, accidentally gets caught in an asteroid belt. The ship takes heavy damage and crashlands on a desert planet with three suns ...  Read the complete review

Picture the scene: First, you're on an interplanetary transport with a psychotic killer who can see in the dark. But he's chained up, so that's alright. Then the ship crashes on a deserted planet with only an abandoned mining village for shelter. But you survived the impact, so things could be worse. The aforementioned shiny-eyed loon breaks free ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

One of the marvels of a sci-fi film is how believable it is. Successful sci-fi films tend to be the ones where the characters and events are believable, and the fear and helplessness of the unknown comes across to the viewer. The 2000 film Pitch Black is one such film. The fear of darkness and of creatures unseen combines brilliantly with the fear ...  Read the complete review

Pitch Black is one of those films that – thanks to a gimmick partially forced on it by budget constraints – actually provides something a little different in the sci-fi world. Its central conceit – a group of survivors being hunted by monsters which come out in the dark – plays on basic human fears and instantly helps set up the tense atmosphere ...  Read the complete review

Budgets on films can have a huge impact on the finished product. On many occasions a films budget will be too small and this may be reflected on the screen by unknown actors or poor sets and CGI. In other cases, a budget may actually be too high giving the director dilutions of grandeur, overcomplicating a story and making it a farce. This ...  Read the complete review

Watching "Pitch Black for the umteenth time, I was again enthralled be the deapth of Vin Diesel's acting capabilities. Every one of his features, his character performance is completely believable. As Riddick, his character is wholly unexplained, and in Dark Fury, and the Chronacles of Riddick, we are still left with two questions. Who are ...  Read the complete review

I remembered going to see Pitch Black at the cinema and I remembered I liked it but as is usual for my brain which refuses to store anything but the most necessarily of facts, I had completely forgotten the story itself. I had vague recollections but little more. In an effort to avoid the sludge of Saturday night TV (after 'Strange' of ...  Read the complete review

• The Movie Sci-Fi movies have always been something of a mixed bag in my opinion. For every good one there are countless other bad ones...or should that be really bad ones. Fortunately, you have places like this to let people in on the good ones and this, dear reader, is a good one. The plot is simple and derivative but in ...  Read the complete review

If you have seen aliens, predator and all the other sci-fi horror movies then you will probably love this movie. Vin diesel stars in this must have movie about a ship which crash lands on a planet. When the passengers and crew start to look around the planet they realise that there not the only ones on the planet and realise they only ...  Read the complete review

Vin Diesel a muscle-bound mass murderer who has recently escaped from a maximum-security facility. A sound interesting doesn’t it? Well then you have only scratched the surface of writer/director David Twohy’s sci-fi thriller “Pitch Black”. This movie begins with a vessel hurtling through space, with a strange ...  Read the complete review

With the popularity of films like Aliens, Starship Troopers and Lost in Space, it is hardly surprising that we have a chance to see yet another group of strangely mis-matched companions thrown together by misfortune, fighting for their lives against an unbeatable enemy. Strange then, and a touch surprising, that this film was not only superbly ...  Read the complete review

I went into this film expecting a second rate hangover cure, and I came out not only grinning but shaking too. So whats it all about? Well the plot is pretty cliched - but don't let that stop you seeing it. Its all about a group of seemingly ordinary futuristic strangers (and one mass murderer) who crash land their spaceship on a ...  Read the complete review

I waited a long time to see Pitch Black. A looooooooooong time. You see, it was originally slated for a cinematic release in April of 2000. Then it was put back to May. Then July. When it finally came out in (I think) September, I was beginning to wonder if it would actually be worth the wait. Well, it definitely was. And when I went out and ...  Read the complete review

With the popularity of films like Aliens, Starship Troopers and Lost in Space, it is hardly surprising that we have a chance to see yet another group of strangely mis-matched companions thrown together by misfortune, fighting for their lives against an unbeatable enemy. Strange then, and a touch surprising, that this film was not only superbly ...  Read the complete review

I would have to say that this movie is outstanding! I saw this because I love sci-fi films. The first 45 minutes of this movie are totally gripping. Visually, I have never seen a movie like this before, and that's a very generous compliment. This movie has outstanding special-effects. Even though this is a sci-fi spectacle.. there are ...  Read the complete review

With monsters that look like a false smiling Anthea Turner, this film is quite chilling. THE PLOT ********* This film starts in much the same way many Sci fi alien films do. Please don't be put off by that. The films starts with a rather large space carrier (economy class trans space travel if you like), The pilot, crew and ...  Read the complete review

I've read quite a few good opinions about Pitch Black, and from what I've read it sounded like a film I would enjoy, so when I was shopping for something new to watch I picked this, as I like sci-fi films quitw a lot. The nearest film to this that I can think of is the original Alien movie, and Pitch Black actually starts in a ...  Read the complete review

I can safely start by saying that Pitch Black will not appeal to every cinema goer. While I rate this as one of my favourite films of the past couple of years my other friends are less keen on the film, one fell asleep and another dispite liking Sci-Fi didn't rate it. If you do plan to see it you need to be a fan of either Sci-Fi, Horror ...  Read the complete review

Sci-fi movies have always seemed somewhat hit and miss to me, and it was with some trepidation that went wandering along to my local cinema to watch this a few months ago. I had heard mixed reviews about it and I really hate sitting through bad movies in a cinema because its not as if you can just change the channel or fast forward through the ...  Read the complete review