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Saw this early, was fairly good.
Not an all time classic, but pretty watchable. Firstly make sure you have seen pitch black as that is fairly important to several of the characters making any sense.
Part of the set looks like it was stolen from lord of the rings. The giant tower thing with the big sculpted heads on it looked ridiculously like the pass of kings (i think thats what it was called) from the end of the first LOTR film.It also obviously piked a bit of Julius caesar for its story line.
As you'd expect the story wasn't overly complex and the stunts and special effects were pretty good if not a little over done in places. Didn't play on characters anywhere near as much as Pitch Black which was a major plus of the first film, but in going more "sci-fi" i suppose this was to be expected.
Judy Dench and thandie Newton were pretty much in it to add some credibility to the cast. Jack (the girl from the first film) who is played by young Alexa Davalos is the eye candy and holds the action role pretty well with out being to cheesy.
Parts of it were over done and maybe the step up by the makers to try and make it an "epic" with huge SFX and overdone stunts was a bit to much, rather than following the atmospheric path of the first, but it is still worth a watch.
i'd give it 3/5 not to intense but very watchable and a touch predictable.
Not an all time classic, but pretty watchable. Firstly make sure you have seen pitch black as that is fairly important to several of the characters making any sense.
Part of the set looks like it was stolen from lord of the rings. The giant tower thing with the big sculpted heads on it looked ridiculously like the pass of kings (i think thats what it was called) from the end of the first LOTR film.It also obviously piked a bit of Julius caesar for its story line.
As you'd expect the story wasn't overly complex and the stunts and special effects were pretty good if not a little over done in places. Didn't play on characters anywhere near as much as Pitch Black which was a major plus of the first film, but in going more "sci-fi" i suppose this was to be expected.
Judy Dench and thandie Newton were pretty much in it to add some credibility to the cast. Jack (the girl from the first film) who is played by young Alexa Davalos is the eye candy and holds the action role pretty well with out being to cheesy.
Parts of it were over done and maybe the step up by the makers to try and make it an "epic" with huge SFX and overdone stunts was a bit to much, rather than following the atmospheric path of the first, but it is still worth a watch.
i'd give it 3/5 not to intense but very watchable and a touch predictable.
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One thing I didnt like about it is how Jack is basically a female version of Riddick. The whole persona of Riddick is that he can do anything and nobody comes close to what he does, especially in Pitch Black. But in Chronicles, Jack can do things that Riddick can do.
Saw this early, was fairly good.
Not an all time classic, but pretty watchable. Firstly make sure you have seen pitch black as that is fairly important to several of the characters making any sense.
Part of the set looks like it was stolen from lord of the rings. The giant tower thing with the big sculpted heads on it looked ridiculously like the pass of kings (i think thats what it was called) from the end of the first LOTR film.It also obviously piked a bit of Julius caesar for its story line.
As you'd expect the story wasn't overly complex and the stunts and special effects were pretty good if not a little over done in places. Didn't play on characters anywhere near as much as Pitch Black which was a major plus of the first film, but in going more "sci-fi" i suppose this was to be expected.
Judy Dench and thandie Newton were pretty much in it to add some credibility to the cast. Jack (the girl from the first film) who is played by young Alexa Davalos is the eye candy and holds the action role pretty well with out being to cheesy.
Parts of it were over done and maybe the step up by the makers to try and make it an "epic" with huge SFX and overdone stunts was a bit to much, rather than following the atmospheric path of the first, but it is still worth a watch.
i'd give it 3/5 not to intense but very watchable and a touch predictable.
Not an all time classic, but pretty watchable. Firstly make sure you have seen pitch black as that is fairly important to several of the characters making any sense.
Part of the set looks like it was stolen from lord of the rings. The giant tower thing with the big sculpted heads on it looked ridiculously like the pass of kings (i think thats what it was called) from the end of the first LOTR film.It also obviously piked a bit of Julius caesar for its story line.
As you'd expect the story wasn't overly complex and the stunts and special effects were pretty good if not a little over done in places. Didn't play on characters anywhere near as much as Pitch Black which was a major plus of the first film, but in going more "sci-fi" i suppose this was to be expected.
Judy Dench and thandie Newton were pretty much in it to add some credibility to the cast. Jack (the girl from the first film) who is played by young Alexa Davalos is the eye candy and holds the action role pretty well with out being to cheesy.
Parts of it were over done and maybe the step up by the makers to try and make it an "epic" with huge SFX and overdone stunts was a bit to much, rather than following the atmospheric path of the first, but it is still worth a watch.
i'd give it 3/5 not to intense but very watchable and a touch predictable.
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