If the Terminator went back in time to win a game of Dungeons and Dragons, it'd be a lot like The Chronicles of Riddick.
Vin Diesel's Riddick, the hulking sociopath at the centre of this visually-sumptuous but murkily-scripted space opera, was introduced four years ago in the cult hit Pitch Black. That film, made on a comparably shoestring budget, was a taut Alien-like thriller about a group of crash survivors trapped on a monster-filled planet that existed in near-constant night. Riddick, a notorious killer being transported by a bounty hunter, became the castaways' unlikely saviour, thanks to his aptitude for violence as well as a pair of see-in-the-dark peepers.
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