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Pitch Black

United States

2000

109 Min
Color
2.35:1
Arabic, English
  • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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DIR David Twohy

EXEC Ted Field, Scott Kroopf, Tony Winley

PROD Tom Engelman

SCR Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat, David Twohy

DP David Eggby

CAST Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Claudia Black, Rhiana Griffith, John Moore, Simon Burke

ED Rick Shaine

PROD DES Graham 'Grace' Walker

MUSIC Graeme Revell

Synopsis

The space transport vessel “Hunter-Gratzner” carrying 40 people on-board crashes on a desert planet when the ship is struck in a meteor storm. There are only 10 survivors, among them are pilot Carolyn Fry (Who has assumed command after the ship’s captain is killed), bounty hunter William J. Johns, religious man Abu “Imam” al-Walid, Antiques dealer Paris P. Ogilvie, runaway teenage girl Jack, settlers John ‘Zeke’ Ezekiel and his lover Sharon ‘Shazza’ Montgomery and Richard B. Riddick, a dangerous escaped convict. Marooned, the 10 survivors finds the barren and hot desert-scape has sunlight from three suns. Not only they find food and water, and worry about Riddick, the survivors finds themselves being hunted by the planet’s flesh eating alien inhabits, when the planet is engulfed in darkness, which happens every 22 years, as they come out on to the surface to hunt and eat all signs of life. Fry and the survivors finds Riddick is their best chance of survival, as Riddick has surgically-enhanced silver eyes that allow him to see in the dark as they set out to find a way of escaping from the planet and getting to a escape shuttle, before they all get eaten by the creatures on the surface. –IMDb

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David Twohy

David Neil Twohy (born 18 October 1955) is an American film director and screenwriter.

Twohy was born in Los Angeles County, California. He attended college at California State University, Long Beach, graduating with a degree in radio/television/film.

His most successful movies have been: (as a writer) The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford, and (as a writer and director) Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick and its upcoming sequel Riddick 3. He also wrote the script and scenario for the The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay video game. He has a cameo in Below as the British Captain of the rescue ship. —Wikipedia 

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Emmma

7Jun13

honeslty, Prometheus could've learend a lot from this movie..

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runfromfire

27Apr13

The first half plays out like a generic, sub-par genre flick: garden variety acting, too many attempted camera flourishes, paper-thin plot, no substance. The second half gets better but it's too little too late and the payoff is lackluster.

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withche.07

5Feb12

passable movie for sci-fi lovers.

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