There are few movie stars as synonymous with2000saction cinema asVin Diesel.
What Is ‘Pitch Black’ About?
Pitch Blacks plot is quite simple, leaving room for the eccentric filmmaking at hand to dominate.
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The film follows agroup of people from various backgrounds as they travel to a destination called New Mecca.
‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ is an absurdly ambitious space opera that verges on being completely campy.
Pitch Blackopens with a bang, as the ship catches on fire.
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But when you put Vin-f*cking-Diesel in the drivers seat, it becomes something else entirely.
It doesnt get bogged down in lore or (God forbid) character development.
There is the sense that the world that Riddick inhabits is one broken and scarred by industrialization.
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A transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.
