{"id":5427,"date":"2013-09-06T05:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2013-09-06T05:40:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:40:45","slug":"riddick-is-vins-sci-fi-rambo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=5427","title":{"rendered":"‘s Sci-Fi Rambo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVin Diesel and his buffed out ego must love this resurgence of his career. I suppose fans of Vinnie are digging it as well. The renewed interest in his \u201cFast and Furious\u201d franchise over the last few years is unprecedented as each install becomes more and more popular on a global scale. Part 6 earned just south of $800MM this summer worldwide!!<\/p>\n

So as his popularity has grown again, Vin has decided to dust off another character from his filmography and see if it\u2019s him that gets the asses in the seats or if it\u2019s actually just the \u201cFast and Furious\u201d formula. Lucky for the bald actor, we are an entertainment society that devours sequels and does not seem to mind repetition. And we are an entertainment society that devours sequels and does not seem to mind repetition. Sorry, just testing the theory.<\/p>\n

In \u201cRiddick\u201d we get to catch up with\u2026 you guessed it, Richard B. Riddick- the hardened action anti-hero from Diesel\u2019s prior works \u201cPitch Black\u201d and \u201cThe Chronicles of Riddick\u201d. \u201cBlack\u201d was a solid take on a sci-fi horror film and launched his career while \u201cChronicles\u201d played like a lackluster rip-off of David Lynch\u2019s \u201cDune\u201d and stalled it. The scope of \u201cChronicles\u201d was too large, the costumes were too silly and the R-rated action was reduced to a gutless PG-13. This go around acknowledges these mistakes and returns to the hard-R sci-fi action that best suits the character.<\/p>\n

We meet up with our beloved criminal buried in a pile of rubble, left for dead on sun drenched planet. The first act of the film is almost dialogue-free as Riddick fights to survive against wild dogs, flying serpents and creatures that look like a cross between Giger\u2019s \u201cAlien\u201d fused with a scorpion. These first 30 minutes are the best in the film and play like a live action version of a short story you would find in \u201cHeavy Metal\u201d magazine.<\/p>\n

Then a group of bounty hunters arrive, set on collecting Riddick\u2019s head as he is worth double the price delivered dead. A game of cat and mouse is played between Riddick and his would-be captors while an unseen menace approaches in the distance. They need to get off that planet before the storm arrives and, of course, they don\u2019t. Chaos ensues and blood is splattered on every wall.<\/p>\n

In Riddick, Diesel has given us an uber-macho badass that can do it all. He\u2019s smart, fearless, brutal, funny and is so very sexy that even lesbians can\u2019t resist his charms. This actually happens in the film. A woman who does not find men attractive falls for him at first sight because she\u2019s unable to deny his raw manliness. It\u2019s hilarious stuff that is meant to point out the ridiculous nature of these action movies. At least I hope that\u2019s the intent.
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\nWhile I enjoyed the supped up nature of \u201cRiddick,\u201d there are issues (but aren\u2019t there always?) Audiences not familiar with the prior films in the series will be lost in spots. While \u201cRiddick\u201d only loosely ties itself to the prior films in the series, there are connections that would have been better off left out.<\/p>\n

The effects vary in quality and there are moments of the film that just look outright cheap. The music score provided by Graeme Revell features almost nothing but pounding percussion and the result is distracting and numbing. Also, the film ends weak as the reveal of what awaits in the storm is nothing new and there is zero heightening.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, \u201cRiddick\u201d is back to the form of the original, placing the action on a single, hostile planet and limiting the cast to only a handful of victims who systematically get plucked off as Riddick runs around annihilating computer generated beasties. Its good fun that delivers a mindless sort of mayhem that would be perfectly viewed at your local drive in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vin Diesel and his buffed out ego must love this resurgence of his career. I suppose fans of Vinnie are digging it as well. The renewed interest in his \u201cFast and Furious\u201d franchise over the last few years is unprecedented as each install becomes more and more popular on a global scale. Part 6 earned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5347,11486,17032,17772,23798],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-david-twohy","tag-katee-sackhoff","tag-riddick","tag-sci-fi","tag-vin-diesel"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}