Pitch Black (2000)

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This starts off with a sequence of a woman narrating and showing the crew of the ship in their pods as they enter what looks like Saturn’s atmosphere. So for some reason they crash on the planet and much of the crew is dead, but what’s left of the crew must survive. But there’s one problem, the vicious criminal they had captive in the ship has escaped and is on the run. The crew is looking for him, but strange things start happening as they scour the planet. They discover creatures that inhabit the planet. They live in the dark. They’re safe for now because the planet has three suns… or are they?

It seems the captain of the crew discovers a device telling them that the planet is going to go under a huge eclipse. Now it’s open season for the creatures. Will they make it out alive in time? This is one of the better sci-fi movies to come around in a very long time. The characters are pretty good and the creature effects are great. The fight and creature-attack sequences are one of the higher points of the movie. I sat in the theatre hoping that there wouldn’t be any flaws to this… I always get let down. The camera work at times is very bad, and god is this movie bright!

I had to put on my sunglasses at the beginning of the movie to watch it. The characters are also very one-dimensional and are used as just creature bait. We never get to feel anything for them. The story is also a huge dud. Very simple and basic plot with a lot of bad acting (Not including Vin Diesel, one of the higher points to this). This wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be. This is a dumb, fun and very flawed Sci-fi action flick that is a good time killer but don’t expect it on any top 10 lists.