Some 41 Years Of Merry DeathI never got around to watching The Chronicles of Riddick. Let's fix that.
"Neceomongers"!? 🤣🤣🤣
Oof...I am having a hard time with Vin Diesel in any role other than Dominic Toretto.
Dame Judi Dench is in this movie!!! Exchanging dialogue with Vin Diesel!!!
I would not have thought it possible.
Ah, ok. The Neceomongers are missionaries, and the message is essentially, convert or die.
One of the missionaries is Karl Urban! McCoy from the Star Trek reboot! Butcher from the Boys!
The flow, the adventure, the "prophecy now more than 30 years old," it all has the cadence of a sci fi romance novel. Is that why Vin Diesel was cast? To serve as a next gen Fabio?
Now I understand why this movie is not a classic. Looks like they were angling for it to be the first of a series, too.
The big problems included:
* No explanation of why Riddick's people were so exceptionally tough / talented fighters
* The Neceomongers' leader had actually been to the promised land and so he was a true believer. We the audience were never privy to a peek at the promised land / what this guy was fighting for.
Hey so it turns out there WAS a sequel, which I watched last night. The sequel also did not show the promised land!
Vin Diesel's acting and narration was wildly improved. Points removed for making Katee Sackhoff a sexual object; her highest and best use is as a badass leader.