P4M MOVIE REVIEW: Vin Diesel Slays In Sci-Fi Thriller, Pitch Black
You gotta keep an eye out for the new sci-fi thriller Pitch Black, coming in February. Reports on advance screenings are that the movie out-Alien's Alien by a light year.
Starring Vin Diesel, who played supersexy Private Caparzo in Saving Private Ryan (and also provided the supersexy voice of the robot in The Iron Giant), Pitch Black is about bunch of people on a space liner, crash landing on a sun-scorched, somewhat inhospitable planet that turns, when night suddenly falls, completely inhospitable. There are nasty creatures. The only guy with smarts enough to save anyone is Diesel, who plays a supersexy, primal-yet-poetic escaped murderer named Riddick.
Sounds predictable, but we hear that Pitch Black is so thrillingly plausible at every turn that it sucks you in and keeps you there. (Can you say the same about Alien and its sequels? Getting the little girl out of the alien hatchery in Aliens? Never happen.) You can enjoy the fantastic action in Pitch Black without suspending too much disbelief, which is definitely fresh-- and we hear this from a film reviewer who is as much an armchair scientist as a sci-fi movie junky. The planet's arid ecology and twenty-two-year-long orbital cycle? Plausible. The movie's awesome special effects-- creatures swarming and celestial bodies eclipsing? Plausible. The behavior of stranded space travellers, the look of their salvaged belongings, even the crash landing sequence in which the "windshield" blows out? All pretty plausible.
And if there was ever been a big, bad character to rocket off into the sunset with Major Sequel Potential, it is Riddick. We're told Diesel slays in Pitch Black (the result, in part, of some incredibly smart direction by David Twohy, who also directed 1996's The Arrival). The actor is also a filmmaker, having presented his feature Strays at Sundance in 1997 and currently developing Doormen, based on his experience as a bouncer in New York City. But word is that Pitch Black could make Diesel a major action star, so don't expect him to have too much time to spend in the future as an auteur.
Starring Vin Diesel, who played supersexy Private Caparzo in Saving Private Ryan (and also provided the supersexy voice of the robot in The Iron Giant), Pitch Black is about bunch of people on a space liner, crash landing on a sun-scorched, somewhat inhospitable planet that turns, when night suddenly falls, completely inhospitable. There are nasty creatures. The only guy with smarts enough to save anyone is Diesel, who plays a supersexy, primal-yet-poetic escaped murderer named Riddick.
Sounds predictable, but we hear that Pitch Black is so thrillingly plausible at every turn that it sucks you in and keeps you there. (Can you say the same about Alien and its sequels? Getting the little girl out of the alien hatchery in Aliens? Never happen.) You can enjoy the fantastic action in Pitch Black without suspending too much disbelief, which is definitely fresh-- and we hear this from a film reviewer who is as much an armchair scientist as a sci-fi movie junky. The planet's arid ecology and twenty-two-year-long orbital cycle? Plausible. The movie's awesome special effects-- creatures swarming and celestial bodies eclipsing? Plausible. The behavior of stranded space travellers, the look of their salvaged belongings, even the crash landing sequence in which the "windshield" blows out? All pretty plausible.
And if there was ever been a big, bad character to rocket off into the sunset with Major Sequel Potential, it is Riddick. We're told Diesel slays in Pitch Black (the result, in part, of some incredibly smart direction by David Twohy, who also directed 1996's The Arrival). The actor is also a filmmaker, having presented his feature Strays at Sundance in 1997 and currently developing Doormen, based on his experience as a bouncer in New York City. But word is that Pitch Black could make Diesel a major action star, so don't expect him to have too much time to spend in the future as an auteur.
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