This is the first movie about
Richard B. Riddick, a convicted killer on route to a prison,
together with around 40 other passengers in a space craft.
Something goes wrong and the spacecraft has to do a emergency
landing on a seemingly lifeless planet where the suns (3 of
them) always shines and it never becomes night. As you might
have guessed this is a Sci Fi movie. It's not new, it is from
2000, but somehow I have missed this one.
The opening scene with the emergency landing is awesome and
promises a lot for the rest of the movie. Unfortunately, the
rest is less exciting - pretty boring, actually. Of the 40
passengers, only a handful survives, one of them is of course
Riddick. They find a mining station on the planet which seems to
have been abandoned for several years and soon they realize that
all of the people has been killed by the inhabitant creatures on
this planet. These monster creatures can only come out when it
is dark, though, the rest of the time they live under the
ground. Since the planet has 3 suns, it only gets dark very
seldom, when there is an eclipse. The last one happened 22 years
ago and the next is due any day...
The main story is about the survivors trying to get a small
spacecraft, left by the miners, up and running. To do this they
need power cells from their own, crashed, craft. Of course the
monsters won't let this happen. Also, everybody is pretty
nervous that Riddick, who has been trained as a pilot and can
fly the spacecraft, is going to fly away as soon as he gets a
chance so he can get away from his awaiting prison sentence.
It gets a little more exciting when it becomes dark and the
monsters come out, but the overall story is very thin and
doesn't quite last for a whole movie. I give this a rating of 6-
out of 10.
One thing that seems very strange to me in this movie, is that
there lives creatures that can't be outside in the sunshine, on
a planet where there, as good as always, is constant daylight.
6/10