Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Just watched it and even 14years later it aged very well. cant understand why this movie got so many bad critics.. this is a nice dystopian, fantasy, sci-fi, film noir alike action movie.i like the style of the necromongers who could just jumped out of a hr giger sketchbook, the parts with the mercenaries, the prison planet, the visuals, the cast, the atmosphere, the story..the end is also very nice and its so sad that due its bad critics it couldnt make quiet enough money at the box offices to convince the studios of a big budget thrid part..this could go so well..nothing against part 3, but you know what i mean..overall its a solid 8 in my eyes. go watch it!

This movie is really good, don't believe the Presstitute. You can see that the IMDb score is being manipulated. Each time i like a movie a lot, most of the time the latest review are really good. Some people are paid or programs software do negative review when the movie just get out and it's affecting their popularity and box office revenues. It's clear there's a manipulation in this side. Just do the test, A really good movie who get bad review get really good review after some weeks or months because real people give honest review.For the movie. It's great and it surprise me. When i'm watching a movie and i do not see the time passing by and i enjoy, it's mean it a good movie. I am really critic about movie, sometime i prefer older better movie than most of latest one.

Gees, where do you begin..., I've just peeled myself off the floor after suffering some kind of visual overload, yes the scenes were very flashy, very colorful, and I couldn't keep up with the story because I was being overwhelmed by the seriously over-the-top special effects. From what I gathered, The Chronicles of Riddick could be considered a decent film from a different opinion, but in my opinion I wasn't a fan hence why I rated it lower, not necessarily a bad film it just didn't float my boat in any way. An exhibition of elaborate set designs and headache inducing special effects, this is proper Sci-Fi, I just wish I could've understood it. The Chronicles of Riddick is the sequel to (the much better) Pitch Black, that was a film I enjoyed and actually could follow, and Vin Diesel was fantastic in creating the allure and mystique that surrounds the titular character, Richard Riddick; yet in this film, the mystique and coolness was sadly replaced by confusion.Unusual for one of my reviews but I really can't elaborate on the story or the plot, because somewhere along the viewing I got lost and couldn't find the thread to get back into it, but, that's the point, it's a confusing film so I will base my review on that very point..., if you can watch The Chronicles of Riddick and understand it, well you must be a smarter guy than I.

I have been seeing the Riddick movies in mostly a reverse order. A few weeks ago I first saw the recent (2013) one "Riddick", where he had to escape the Mercs, then I saw the first, "Pitch Black" plus the animated short. Now I have finally seen this one, "Chronicles of Riddick." This one is a very dark theme, as the main nemesis are the race calling themselves the Necromongers. It is derived from the prefix 'necro-', which means death, and the term 'necrophilia' which is 'love of the dead.' According to this story, the Necromongers seek to convert all races in the universe into their type, which involves passing through a state of death, or perhaps near death.I found this explanation online. " The Necromongers practice a religion known as Necroism. The primary belief of this religion is that life in this universe is a mistake which must be corrected. This revelation was brought about by the discovery of the Underverse, which is described as another universe in which life is cherished and even the dead are brought back to life. The Underverse is both the afterlife of the Necromongers and the ultimate destination of their interstellar journey. Entrance to the Underverse is restricted to those who follow the Necromonger religion "Vin Diesel is of course back as Riddick, and as this movie starts he is hunted down on a planet where he has been in seclusion for a few years. He wants to find out who revealed his location, and that journey takes him to the Necromongers.The chief among them is Colm Feore as Lord Marshal. An associate (for lack of a better description) is Thandie Newton as Dame Vaako. Even the great Judi Dench has a role, as the half-invisible Aereon. It wasn't totally clear to me whether she was good or bad. And the key hunter was Karl Urban as Vaako.I will not pretend to understand the interactions of all the characters, or of all the consequences of the various battles. For me the movie was just fun entertainment, a space travel and alien life fantasy. Most of the fun is in seeing the various ways that Riddick, often seemingly imprisoned with zero hope of escape, actually escapes and gains the upper hand on the bad guys. Just a fun movie to view for light entertainment.