Riddick (2013)

Riddick (R)

"Get Rid-of-it"

The Nightvisioned anti-hero is back in his third film which feels less like a "return to roots" as a tepid remake of the first film.  Riddick (Vin Diesel) loses his space kingship from Chronicles in the prologue and finds himself stranded on a desolate planet with ferocious wildlife.  Riddick can apparently can do anything now, and does as he trains a saberdog and avoids the rad-scorpions.  When a rag tag crew of mercs and a specially trained squad of bounty hunters land and begin pursuing Riddick, he must use every trick and tactic for survival that he knows (and apparently wrote the book on ie "Impervious Planet Living").  3rd film is smaller in scope and more predictable than the last, the space-opera fantasy all but forgotten for grim Riddick and his grunting manliness to take lone center stage and coast his way through bloody waves of human and alien adversaries, swaggering at his impossible deeds like a Bud-Light drunk who drove home safely from Oktoberfest.

3.5 At least the first one had that rocketship crash out of 10 (BAD)