Riddick Reviews
At times, it's the best type of Science Fiction... [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 11, 2023
When Twohy and Diesel get together with limited funds, it forces them to get creative and, as shown here, deliver a higher brand of B-movie entertainment that leaves you wanting more.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2022
It is a fun action movie with a recognizable hero and some good action scenes. I would argue that it is the weakest of the trilogy just because the first act is so CG driven and thus uninteresting. However, when it hits its stride it is a lot of fun.
Full Review | Feb 24, 2021
The scope of this third theatrical episode has reverted back to one of simplicity and solitude.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 4, 2020
A few decent scenes can't salvage what appears to be nothing more than a money grab.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020
As a movie, Riddick is half giddy, pulpy sci-fi that is a total blast; and half a clumsy, overlong mess, full of plot holes and inconsistencies.
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2020
To its credit, "Riddick" never takes itself too seriously, but it doesn't quite delve into full-fledged camp mode. Instead it is a film that sort of straddles the center of the mediocre line.
Full Review | Apr 9, 2019
Riddick is one of those movies that, once you watch it, is destined to likely get mixed up in most people's minds with a lot of other movies that are sort of like it. However, for the time that it's onscreen, it's diverting enough to merit a watch.
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 25, 2019
Basically, Riddick strays and strains while never serving up a throbbing storyline to justify why the audience wants to reacquaint themselves with the pumped-up planetary bad boy...get ready for this...utter Riddick-ulousness.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 16, 2018
The on-going involvement of writer/director David Twohy is evident in the continuity of the story over more than a decade since Riddick's introduction in 2000.
Full Review | Oct 27, 2018
Not just a pitiful example of 'churn 'em out' genre cinema, but is also perhaps set to be the most chauvinistic, sexist movie of the year.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 23, 2018
Violent, strange, and with ever-escalating stakes, this is the definition of a well-crafted B-movie.
Full Review | Jul 3, 2018
[Riddick] feels like a B-grade project made up of impressive CGI creatures, an overly CGI'd planet, and a script of clunky one-liners.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 8, 2017
Don't waste your time on this one.
Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 6, 2017
As a character, Riddick is no more than a rumble in [Vin] Diesel's throat.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 5, 2017
What's disappointing about Riddick is that it never seems to figure out why we would want to follow the main character, outside of his propensity for violence and snark.
Full Review | Original Score: C | Jun 27, 2016
B-level sci-fi doesn't have to be this tedious or banal.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 17, 2016
Seems like a side adventure.
Full Review | Original Score: D | Jul 15, 2015
Diesel's a guy who orders everything with extra cheese. Especially his dialogue.
Full Review | Apr 28, 2015
If you are a fan of sci-fi, of horror, and/or of the mix of the two genres, you should find plenty to enjoy here and I recommend the film to you.
Full Review | Aug 5, 2014