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In Pitch Black, the silver-eyed, night-visioned convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) was the anti-hero, the untrustworthy guy driven to good by interplanetary beasties. In The Chronicles of Riddick, director David Twohy again asks Riddick “to save or not to save”: The Necromongers are going planet to planet, mongering muchos necro, and nobody can stop ’em — unless Aereon’s (Dame Judi Dench) prophecy comes true. (If you think “Necromongers” is bad, it’s only the start: Everything in this film was named by a 14-year-old with Latin for Dungeon Masters and a Star Trek DVD set.) Unfortunately this time, no matter how often it’s said that “Sometimes the only way to stop evil is … with another kind of evil,” Riddick’s character is never in doubt. What it lacks in character depth, Chronicles makes up for in, like, totally awesome fight scenes in strobe lights — if you can even spell “seizure,” take heed — starring Riddick and The Hot Chick That Can Totally Kick Ass (a.k.a. Kyra, played by Alexa Davalos). Bigger-picture check: As a comment on the moral ambiguities of homogeneity and the powers and dangers of faith, Riddick does a great job of … having, like, totally awesome fight scenes in strobe lights. 
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2004.
