I love the Riddick movies.. This bizarre planet, the creatures, the mysteriousness of Riddick and him narrating parts of it. They have their own brand of uniqueness, it has it's own environment, much like Startrek and Stargate, had their whole own universe..(I'm certainly not comparing this to above franchises. This one isn't as 'abstract' as the others. It kind of filled in our understanding of Riddick a bit more and the world he lives in.. There were some small bits of humor, and light-heartedness. Plenty of strong action, and violence. The supporting actors contributed also. Every once in a while, you get a hint, Riddick, might have some other powers, strengths, we are not aware of yet. If you liked the previous Riddick, this is more, slightly different, you won't be dis-appointed.. I hope Vin Diesel continues to make a couple more sequels..

Riddick is the supposed sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), recurring writer-director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel get back to basics with Riddick, all but ignoring the events of Chronicles to make the film much more in the spirit of the original Riddick adventure, the low budget Pitch Black (2000). But maybe too much in that spirit, as the new movie at times plays almost like a remake of the earlier one.Similar to Pitch Black, Riddick tells a lean, self-contained story aside from a couple references to characters and events of the previous films — characters and events that. This third film of the franchise is quite easily better than Chronicles as it is due to its R-rating and it feels more authentic and less cartoonish. Though Chronicles was rated PG-13 it made the most from the box office. At times, this film feels quite off and boring and most of the scenes are the ones with Vin Diesel off screen, as they spend a lot of time in the second half building the side characters. Problem is, we mostly do not care for them. Riddick is a decent action film but nothing too special .

Vin Diesel stars in this action-packed thriller as his typical jacked bad-ass protagonist who keeps his speaking to a minimal and still needs to work on his conflict resolution. The film also includes Batista, which was neat and I was glad to also see Katee Sackhoff who is basically playing the same role she plays on Longemire but that's due to the fact she is pretty good at it so far.Overall, good movie but only thing holding it back from a higher rating is the "impossible" moves Riddick performs and his ability to continuously make it out alive even though the odds are severely against him.

To be frank, I like this movie much better than Pitch Black. The reason is, that I find the characters much more interesting.I never liked the young Jones in Pitch Black. The new villain Santana and the older Jones are much more interesting. I even like Dahl. The other characters are the standard typical Mercs (with one exception, though also not interesting either -- every Riddick movie needs a religious man, it seams) ... nothing to remember here.The story, to be frank is basically a copy of Pitch Black with some different CGI. Maybe they thought, that if it worked once, let it do the job twice. The plot is simply rather dull and predictable from the beginning. Even the ending is very disappointing (I read somewhere, that the directors cut version shall give a little more ... but not much).Some plot holes are there also - for example two ships with top SciFi-equipment that shall detect any movement, but Riddick seams to be able to move without detection everywhere ... no hinting, why or how. Again Riddick is just without physical limits ... for me, a little to implausible, but who cares ...At least some cool lines and watchable interactions between the people -- I found it more interesting than Pitch Black.