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Pitch Black (2000)
 7.1/10 from 204849 users Updated : 2017-12-25
 Rating: 5.6/10
[fresh!] 57% [audience liked it!] 77%
 Horror , Sci-Fi
 Radha Mitchell , Cole Hauser , Vin Diesel , Keith David , Lewis Fitz-Gerald , Claudia Black , Rhiana Griffith , John Moore , Simon Burke ,
Les Chantery , Sam Sari , Firass Dirani , Ric Anderson , Vic Wilson , Angela Moore
 David Twohy
IMDB  109
 2000
 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 11
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 Al-Walid|
Antiques dealer Paris P. Ogilvie| runaway teenager Jack| settlers John 'Zeke' Ezekiel and his lover Sharon 'Shazza' Montgomery| and Richard B. Riddick| a dangerous
escaped convict. Marooned| the survivors discover the barren and hot desert-scape has sunlight from three suns. Not only must they find food and water and worry
about Riddick| the survivors find themselves being hunted by the planet's flesh-eating alien inhabitants when the planet is engulfed in darkness| which happens every
22 years| as they emerge from underground to hunt and eat all signs of life. Fry and the survivors find Riddick is their best chance of survival| as Riddick has
surgically-enhanced ...
Despite an interesting premise (and a starmaking turn from Vin Diesel), Pitch Black is too derivative and formulaic to fully recommend to sci-fi or action fans.
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