Pitch Black (DVD) Reviews

This film combines the best of a sci-fi film with a horror film. The beginning: a random spaceship dawdles along the shipping lanes, passengers and crew in 'cryosleep'. Said passengers include a serial killer, whose eyes have been adjusted to see only in the dark. When the ship is hit by asteroids, killing the captain, ...  Read the complete review

Pitch black has been described as a cross between 'Alien and Mad Max' so being a fan of both sets of films I thought this would appeal. I was right. This film has all the elements of the classic sci-fi, a big ship, a tough crew, and nasty aliens. Pilot Carolyn Fry is in trouble. She's just been woken from cryosleep to ...  Read the complete review

Having seen to trailers for this film I was looking forward to going to the cinema to see it. I realy thought that it would have the potential to make you jump a mile. When I wen to see the film I was some what let down. The film hardly made me jump at all, appart from this I felt that the film was worth while seeing. The story was the ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, nowhere in this review will be words such as "Alien-like" or "Alien-esque". That's just lazy reviewing - just because a film features a bunch of characters battling against aliens doesn't mean it's a rip off. More on that in a moment, but this is beginning to sound like I'm defending this movie... ...  Read the complete review

If a science fiction or horror film comes out nowadays it seems to be standard practice for the stars and director to attempt to portray the film as something else entirely in their endless series of interviews conducted prior to the film’s release. It is almost as if these genres are perceived to be so ‘uncool’ that to describe ...  Read the complete review

Not a bad film but I initially thought from the trailers I saw before hand that this would be a much more scary film than it actually is. Don’t get me wrong it’s still a very good film but nothing that comes from name ‘Pitch Black’ which sounds scary. It starts off when a space ship carrying civilian passengers and ...  Read the complete review

I was recommended this sci fi film by lots of people so I decided to take a chance and get it on R1. There are two version of this movie on DVD. I am going to rate the "unrated version" as that is what In have. Basically the two versions of the DVD are identical apart from a few more minutes of character development in the unrated ...  Read the complete review

Director David Twohy delivers a film that has some nice cinematography and SPFX but a B-class plot. The movie starts with a civilian passenger starliner that passes through the tail of a rogue comet. It then very conveniently crashes into an M-class planet. Even more conveniently the survivors discover a deserted human settlement! The ...  Read the complete review

Yes, we've seen this movie before, and it's 'Aliens', but when your ripoffs are this good, this sharp, coming on with this much edge, who cares, at least they're not plundering 'The Sound of Music'. The setup requires you to swallow two very big contrivances - 1) that the characters crash-land on a ...  Read the complete review

What a beginning! Never has the start of a film been so spectacular. From the offset the special effects is fantastic. The film begins with a crash on an alien desert planet. The ship is ripped to shreds and the action is intense. T he ship sets down or furrows down on the odious planet. THEN THE FILM GOES PANTS UP!!!! ...  Read the complete review

Let's not beat around the bush with this one, it isn't the most in-depth, emotional film you will ever see. The point is though that it doesn't pretend to be! The opening few minutes push you face first into the movie. First there's a creepy voiceover then there's explosions galore with sirens, alarms, shots of ...  Read the complete review

Possibly the worst film I've ever forked out five quid to go and see.It begins with a ship crashing down onto a planet in a totally unrealistic situation with graphics that could be drawn by a five year old and with the actors speaking in Star-Trek style language that we have no hope of understanding unless we are rocket scientists. After ...  Read the complete review

The Groove Monster Movie Rating: 77% Starts off with a bang as when the ship is marginally out of the range of the gravitational pull of a planet, something goes wrong that wakes the 'passengers' that include a convicted psychopathic killer, out of suspended animation. As the ship is then knocked into the reach of the pull of the ...  Read the complete review

This film is supposed to be the next big thing, the only trouble is that it is rubbish! The storyline is both boring and predictable, and the acting is the worst I have seen for a long, long time, event the new Slater family in Eastenders could give them a run for their money! The film is basically about a space craft that crashes on a planet ...  Read the complete review

Released in the Spring of 2000, no summer, no Autumn, no winter of 2000 (OK, it was delayed!) this monster of a movie has been a monster (in more ways than one) movie waiting to happen. The basic story is that a group of people (I won't ruin the story by telling you who) crash land on a deserted planet. Then it appears that the only ...  Read the complete review

From the mind of writer and director David Twohy comes Pitch black: bog-standard alien monster stuff which could leave you rolling around with laughter. Set in the not too distant future, we follow space pilot Fry (Radha Mitchell) as meteor shower forces her to crash-land on a distant planet. As her brave survivors explore the blazing hot, ...  Read the complete review

When every other movie is a horror, it’s hard to find one that makes you feel tense, let alone scare you. Having seen endless dismemberment, carnage and teenagers being topped off in ever more extravagant manners, it takes more to frighten us. Every now and then, however, some bright spark director realises that it's what we ...  Read the complete review

I went to see Pitch black on the day it was released and I thought it was EXCELLENT, I was truly on the edge of my seat the whole way through the film and I considerd the special effects and aliens to be extremly relaistic. I thought that the acting was fantastic and Vin Desil made one hell of a pschotic killer. The plot kept me guessing and for ...  Read the complete review

Being more of a movie fan than I am a sci-fi fan, I was split almost 50/50 as to whether I would enjoy this Sci-fi thriller, and having owned this film on DVD for a week or so now, having finally watched it, I have to admit to being pleased to enjoy a very good film indeed. When the film began I thought to myself "oh, another Star Trek ...  Read the complete review

Alien Films recently seem to be lacking something, the certain mysterious unpredictable buzz that used to feature on the very best supernatural films. Although my friend and I decided to take the risk and attempt to sit though the new alien flick 'Pitch Black'. The basic storyline is that a type of spaceship carrying passengers make an ...  Read the complete review