riddick

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411250

riddick is an attempt to go back to the formula that worked for the original riddick movie, pitch black.  the tie-in to the previous movie where he took over the necronomicon kingdom was clumsy at best.  it seemed like they were trying extra hard to bring the expectations down a notch, since he was going from fighting a multi-planet kingdom of hardcore pain fanatics in the last movie to fighting a double handful of mercenaries, many of whom were incompetent, in this one.

i leave you with a single question.  on a world filled with ferocious scorpion-monsters that bury themselves in mud and are capable of surviving long dry spells, what do they eat when they wake up?  shirley, the answer is not "mercenaries and gazelle-dogs."   unless the rain clouds themselves are sentient beings that only release moisture when a sufficient number of mercenaries and gazelle-dogs are present to feed the scorpion-monsters.

riddick gets two necromorphs, but only because of big hearts for vin diesel.