This stands Riddick in good stead when he crashes, along with an entire ship full of passengers and criminals, on a planet populated by giant killer bats in Pitch Black. Riddick, first introduced in 2000’s Pitch Black, is firmly in the second camp, but there’s something about Vin Diesel’s almost wordless charisma that makes him far more interesting than he could have been.Ī convict from an early age, an encounter with an eye surgeon left Riddick with an acute sensitivity to light – an affliction that isn’t without its upside, since he gets to wear a cool pair of goggles all day, and can see quite clearly at night. More than any other genre, we’d argue, the protagonists in science fiction cinema are divided along two lines: those of intellect and those of action.
RiddickPitch Black, The Chronicles Of Riddick I don’t even know what you people eat for lunch”) he’s a true B-movie hero.Ĥ9. With his big shoulder pads, slicked back hair (“Dry hair’s for squids”) and his wonderfully terse way with words (“I’m from another time, another world. In a plot device straight out of a Philip K Dick novel, it’s a drug rather than a machine that propels characters through time, and in the first film, Deth travels back to 1985 Los Angeles to catch a criminal by the name of Martin Whistler.ĭeth was the proud owner of a particularly cool sci-fi gadget – something called a ‘long second’ watch, which he could use to slow down time, thus allowing him to avoid bullets as they flew through the air. Less charitable readers might consider Jack Deth to be a poor cousin to Blade Runner’s Rick Deckard, but what Charles Band’s Trancers movies lacked in budget and artistry, the early ones more than made up for charm, novel ideas and humour.ĭeth, played by Tim Thomerson, is a 23rd century cop whose job is to track down psychic criminals called Trancers.
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