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Friday, August 30, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
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| Riddick is finally back! ... You know.. Riddick! That guy from Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick? Yeah, him. |
It's been thirteen years since Pitch Black. Nine since The Chronicles of Riddick. Was anyone really clamouring for the return of Vin Diesel's fantasy/sci-fi superhero? Pitch Black was an above par science fiction actioner - a B-movie with a few touches of real class - though nowhere near classic status. The ill-advised Chronicles of Riddick was an aesthetic and narrative disaster, an expansion of a daft, confusing universe nobody particularly cared much about in the first place. Chronicles took a well-deserved critical and financial mauling and the franchise was left for dead.
Yet this franchise, much like its central character, has proved difficult to kill. I don't think anybody was expecting Riddick to return, yet here he is, clawing his way back onto screens apparently by sheer determination. Riddick is Vin Diesel's pet character, developed from games of Dungeons and Dragons he played as a kid. Diesel's love for the character is palpable, for example to finance Riddick he leveraged his own house as collateral. The appeal of this film, produced on a relatively $40 million budget, with a very quick shooting schedule is obvious: it's the scrappy underdog in a market of high-gloss focus-grouped assured successes. This is a labour of love. But is it any good?
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