Riddick
Friday, February 2, 2018 8:14:53 AM | (Age Not Specified)
Riddick is COOL. He would be cool even in a commercial for washing powder. :D
A few things could be done better, like these obviously confusing scenes with Dahl being or not being lesbian which offended so many people who love to be offended by everything, and I could go without some over-the-top wrestling, but as a whole it´s enjoyable movie with the most badass cynical antihero of all times, funny mercs and one of the very rare good female characters.
Dahl isn´t wannabe badass like the childish stalker Kyra (I hate Kyra) but a professional who doesn´t brag about being cool all the time because she is cool and she proves it when neccessary. Also she isn´t hypersexualized like the most of female characters in action movies. I believed she could really be a merc in cynical post-apo galaxy.
In the contrary, I´ve never believed Kyra to be real badass. She was only obsessed with Riddick to the point of putting his life in danger when she signed up with mercs to find him. And than watch him die or be sent to prison, I bet.
I´m glad that Twohy didn´t went into the saving stupid Kyra from the Underverse thing. I have nothing against Necros and Underverse and expanded mythology and I would like to see Underverse and Furya but Kyra should stay dead. It would make no sense to bring her back. Lord Marshal wasn´t dead when went to Underverse and back, so why the Hell should dead Kyra come back? Her corpse must be rotten after those years. And absence of this annoying character helped the third Riddick movie to be better than Chronicles.
For the next one, keep the R-rating, keep the cynism, the blood, the brutality, the f-words...and absence of silly romantic hints. It works in the hard, cruel universe of Riddick and he works the best as lonely beast who doesn´t know how to rejoin the human race, like he said in Pitch Black. The dog was cool too and worked better as a sidekick than stupid, arrogant, selfish Kyra. The dog was truly
