Resurrection Without Religious Fantatics: Vin Diesel Returns in "Riddick"

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Manohla Dargis

HOLLYWOOD---Movies like “Riddick,” a satisfyingly primitive spectacle, help explain the unlikely ascendancy of Vin Diesel as a man of cinema. This is the third live-action film in the “Riddick” series, which opened with the aptly grim and gloomy “Pitch Black” (2000), and immediately entered its decadent phase with the unintentionally self-parodic “Chronicles of Riddick” (2004). Gone are the silly costumes and wigs, the overstuffed plot and exotic-sounding villains like the Necromongers, the religious fanatics that Mr. Diesel’s character, the escaped convict more formally known as Richard B. Riddick, once battled. Now, there’s one man alone. Riddick initially struggles just to survive. Of course to complete this rebirth, Riddick, the legendary interplanetary killer, must be baptized in blood. The Diesel rises. [link]

“Riddick” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Blood, alien and otherwise.