Critic Reviews
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
Too often, it simply makes no sense.
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Chronicles doesn't pause for much character development, and is in such a hurry that even the fight scenes are abbreviated chop-chop sessions.
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
This is a movie so devoted to metal that it couldn't care less about the flesh it destroys.
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
Like everything in this humorless new genre, "Chronicles" comes with its own snap-together mythology.
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New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Chronicles of Riddick is half cheesy, brawny adventure and half ... something else. That something else involves a lot of leather, bondage, studded armor and heavy machinery.
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Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
Despite being positioned as a mold-breaker, Riddick now blends in with a sizable crowd of reluctant loner cinematic heroes, just as the movie fails to convince that it's going where no movie has gone before.
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Unfortunately, Twohy has tried to turn the Riddick enterprise into a sprawling, Tolkien-powered epic, jamming the screen with too many historical parallels and a confusion of new characters.
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Has a riddick-ulous sci-fi plot, overblown and numbing video game-style special effects and a going-through-the-motions lead performance by Vin Diesel.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
An overblown hodgepodge of volcano-baked desertscapes, Egyptoid-gone-baroque architecture, and gladiator-geared storm troopers with goofy headpieces, The Chronicles of Riddick bears no resemblance to the movie that spawned its namesake.
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
Not since John Travolta sprouted a head of dreadlocks and strapped on platform boots for "Battlefield Earth" has cinematic science fiction been such good-bad fun as in The Chronicles of Riddick.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Just about everything in The Chronicles of Riddick is impenetrable, from the convoluted story to the dark and baroque art direction. It's an inane film rendered sometimes laughable by an atmosphere of dead-serious reverence.
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