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Riddick
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Twohy
Written byDavid Twohy
Oliver Butcher
Stephen Cornwell
Produced byVin Diesel
Ted Field
Samantha Vincent
StarringVin Diesel
Jordi Mollà
Matt Nable
Katee Sackhoff
Dave Bautista
Bokeem Woodbine
Raoul Trujillo
Karl Urban
CinematographyDavid Eggby
Edited byTracy Adams
Music byGraeme Revell
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Entertainment One (co-distribution in Canada and United Kingdom)
Release dates
  • September 4, 2013 (2013-09-04) (United Kingdom)
  • September 6, 2013 (2013-09-06) (United States)
Running time
118 minutes[1]
CountriesUnited States
Canada
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$38 million[2]

Riddick is a 2013 American science fiction action film, the third installment in the The Chronicles of Riddick film series. Produced by and starring Vin Diesel as the title character, Riddick is written and directed by David Twohy, who previously wrote and directed the first two installments, Pitch Black (2000) and The Chronicles of Riddick (2004).

The film was released on September 4, 2013, in the UK and Ireland, and September 6, 2013, in the United States. It is being shown in both conventional and IMAX Digital theaters.

Plot

Betrayed by the Muffin Men and left for dead on a sugar coated desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators feeding on the sugary food source. After eating several local cupcakes and cookies he becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon, bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for 'sweet' revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes an oven attack of delicious proportions before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

Cast

Production

Development

Rumors of a third film in the Chronicles of Riddick series have circulated since 2006.[3] At first, Twohy assumed that the film would be an independent, low-budget production, rather than being released by Universal Studios as the other films in the series had been.[4] Despite the second film's tepid reception, Diesel and Twohy remained optimistic about a third film, pushing it toward completion. "Everyone knows I love the Riddick character and I’m always working on it", Diesel asserted. "It just takes five years to make another one because David Twohy and I are so precise about it."[5] Over the next four years, Diesel periodically posted information on his own Facebook page updating fans on the film's progress. In November 2009, shortly after Twohy had finished the script, he announced that pre-production work was underway.[6]

In April 2010, a review of the Riddick screenplay (it was then subtitled "Dead Man Stalking") appeared on the Coming Attractions website. "Free from the constraints of delivering a PG-13 movie, the dialogue in Dead Man Stalking is more suited to a film like Training Day; the mercs we meet are hard living people, not those washout fakeout space mercs from a film like Alien Resurrection," wrote reviewer Patrick Sauriol.[7] On February 9, 2010, Diesel confirmed in an update on his Facebook page that one of the locations used in the upcoming sequel would be the White Desert in Farafra, Egypt. He mentioned the terrain features, unique to the area, would lend to the off-planet atmosphere of the film.[8] On March 13, 2011, Diesel released a video on his official Facebook page in which he and Director David Twohy talk about the proposed third film. They reaffirmed that the movie will be rated 'R', like the first one (Pitch Black), a priority for them, and they plan to shoot it lean and quickly.[9] Karl Urban will reprise his role as Vaako from The Chronicles of Riddick.[10] Katee Sackhoff and Matt Nable have also joined the cast.[11]

Principal photography

The first image of Vin Diesel on the film's set was released on January 20, 2012.[12] Filming began in January 2012 and concluded at the end of March 2012.[13] The film entered post production in April 2012.[13] The teaser trailer for the film was released March 22, 2013 via Vin Diesel's official Facebook page.[13]

Reception

Critical response

Riddick was met with mixed to positive reviews, with many citing it as an improvement over The Chronicles of Riddick. It currently holds 59% approval rating on the aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 97 reviews. Its consensus states: "It may not win the franchise many new converts, but this back-to-basics outing brings Riddick fans more of the brooding sci-fi action they've come to expect."[14] Another review aggregation website Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 46 out of 100 based on 26 reviews.[15]

Alonso Duralde of The Wrap gave the film a negative review, saying "If you were to make a comedy about an actor who makes cheesy sci-fi action movies, and you needed a hilarious clip of his work that underscored the awfulness of his output, just about any 30-second segment of Riddick would do the trick."[16] Tom Huddleston of Time Out gave the film two out of five stars, saying "It's flavourless: the aliens are unscary and easily despatched, Vin's too silent to be interesting, and the other characters are either dull or offensive."[17] Scott Foundas of Variety gave the film a positive review, saying "An improbable but very enjoyable sequel that recaptures much of the stripped-down intensity of Diesel and director David Twohy's franchise starter "Pitch Black."[18] Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, saying "Faithful to the template if not the spirit of previous installments, this flabby second sequel barely manages to advance Riddick's considerable personal mythology."[19] Keith Staskiewicz of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C+, saying "Twohy succeeds in staging moments both tense and funny, but they're fewer and farther between than one would hope, and the dialogue is served up with a heaping helping of cheese, especially when delivered in Diesel's low-frequency growl."[20] Jocelyn Noveck of the Associated Press gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying "Sloppy is a kind word, actually, for the ridiculously clumsy dialogue in Riddick, the third and latest installment of the sci-fi saga."[21] Keith Uhlich of Time Out New York gave the film three out of five stars, saying "Watching this see-in-the-dark muscleman brooding against gorgeous otherworldly vistas, all while crafting pointy homemade weapons and befriending a scene-stealing CGI canine (no joke), is a sci-fi aficionado's delight."[22] Bruce Demara of the Toronto Star gave the film three out of four stars, saying "The CGI-created landscape is impressively rendered and detailed, there are loads of cool gadgetry and, of course, plenty of action and "ghosting" - i.e. killing."[23] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three out of four stars, saying "This is not one of those Johnny-come-lately sequels preoccupied with getting a new audience up to speed on where the story was. It's about living in the moment, in the now, and killing in the now."[24] Soren Anderson of The Seattle Times gave the film two out of four stars, saying "As a creature feature, Riddick isn't half bad, though it's far from truly good."[25] Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News gave the film one out of five stars, saying "The story feels like quicksand. Riddick, which couldn’t even qualify for proper summer movie placement, moves like Martian molasses and can’t present an action scene to save its life. You’ll wish you had Uncle Martin’s ability to speed people — not to mention awful movies — up."[26]

Barbara VanDenburgh of The Arizona Republic gave the film three out of five stars, saying "Riddick's at his most fun when the pressure's on, and he retreats to plan something special for his new visitors. All the build-up pays off with tense showdowns in the dark, thrilling restraint and ominous suggestion giving way to slasher gore."[27] Rafer Guzman of Newday gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "It's B-grade cinema made with A-level intelligence and imagination -- skillfully directed, surprisingly well acted and gratifyingly preposterous."[28] David Hiltbrand of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film two out of four stars, saying "Somehow along the way, in the film's only attempt to humanize him, Riddick acquires a pet. That makes Riddick the first (and one hopes the last) film to borrow heavily from both Alien and Old Yeller."[29] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film one out of four stars, saying "Move along, there's nothing to see and no one to root for in this murky franchise reboot."[30] Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying "Riddick" can be cheesy and silly, not to mention excessively violent, but it's also fun."[31] Kyle Smith of the New York Post gave the film a negative review, saying "The movie jogs along nicely without ever getting a case of the stupids; far from being a bloated "John Carter," it's just a pared-down yarn of survival: "Die Hard" on a planet."[32] Stephen Whitty of the Newark Star-Ledger gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying "The dark palette and extreme close-ups turn every fight into a muddy blur; the staging, which should feel claustrophobic, is too often set in vast (and unconvincing) landscapes."[33] Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald gave the film one out of four stars, saying "A modestly budgeted bone Universal Pictures threw at Diesel so he would keep starring in "Fast and Furious" pictures. Those movies are bank; "Riddick" is rank."[34] Adam Graham of Detroit News gave the film a C–, saying "Twohy is trying to do something with his original character. It's just not clear what that something is anymore. Maybe it's time this franchise fades to black for good."[35] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Much of the film is over-the-top, but that won't be a surprise to those who saw the previous two installments. Diesel is in fine form, growling his lines and being the most menacing person on screen even when he's in chains."[36] Amy Nicholson of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, saying "The only reason to root for Riddick is that his name is on the ticket stub. But he's so dull and the hunters so weird that we're literally cheering for the movie to kill off its personality, one throat slash at a time."[37] Nick Schager of Slant Magazine gave the film one out of four stars, saying "For a film about a killing machine who can see at night, it's fittingly ironic that the film itself is, both narratively and visually, a dark, muddled mess."[38]

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