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November 23, 2004

The Chronicles of Riddick - 4

The story is not the main part of this film, although it raises some good points about faith, tolerance, and animal/human nature. There tends to be a strong eastern religious influence, they talk about the balance of the universe, between evil and another kind of evil. It also tends to hold scientism to be the enlightened view, and as the only possible good way for history to unfold. WARNING: contains alot of violence and killing, it is the war for control of the universe after all.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you've seen Saving Private Ryan how can you say this is violent? Not a great movie but great to talk about. It's nice to watch a cheesy action flick once in awhile. People used to watch Arnold now we watch Vin Diesel oh ya.

Chus said...

Here's a great rundown!: The Chronicles of Riddick

Knurd said...

What do you mean "used to" watch Arnold? I saw "Eraser" only last night. I love a good Arnold shoot-em-up.

I'm glad they didn't get carried away with the scientism. The chase across Crematoria followed by the girl's rescue was awesome.

Overall I found that all the characters were really strong willed and fearless. Bit unrealistic.