The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Riddick Smells Beautiful! 

I really wish Riddick would have gotten more love over the years. Yes there are three movies, and a great game, but the universe felt like it had so much more to offer.

You got to give the movie credit for this: it tried to establish a pretty creative universe for itself. In Pitch Black, we really didn’t know much about this universe the characters were living in except that there was a place called New Mecca, and there were mercenaries and bounty hunters searching for escaped convicts and killers like Riddick, and that the particular planet they were on had nocturnal predators. CoR, for all its shortcomings, really blew the possibilities of this universe wide open.

Best part of this review was the line, "Parkour!!!" every time Riddick was running lol

The eyeshine is described as a genetic trait exclusively inherited by Alpha Furyans like Riddick, whom is also stronger than the others. While all Furyans possess peak human physiology, the Alphas are known to be damn near, if not outright, superhuman. Not all Furyans possess this gene. The game is canon but the films retconned the games as Jack points out nothing he told her about the prison was true when it came to the eyeshine. In the game we never see Riddick get his eyeshine surgery as he described it. All the surgeon did was stitch up his wound. Riddick who knew NOTHING of his Furyan heritage simply attributed it to the surgeon as an explanation. He was wrong. Vaako even tells Riddick he fought a Furyan during the genocide that possessed the same eyes as him, further proving it is a natural trait.

The theatrical release omitted the whole vision sequence of the Furian girl, the racial vengeance arc, and the physical mark. It tightened up the story and left Riddick's infant background to be deduced from the (copious) story clues. It focused the story on Riddick himself vs. the Lord Marshal as sort of Biblical retribution, and as personal vengeance for the Imam and Jack, rather than destiny. And it returned the surprise of the last moment reveal of the Purifier as a Furian ("The Furian in me hopes...").

i always had a soft spot for this movie, i love the whole prison sequence.

Fun fact, Riddick was based on one of Vin Diesel's player characters in Dungeons & Dragons.

I am torn about ranking "Pitch Black" and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Mainly because in TCOR, you got an explanation about who Riddick is and why he is such a good killer. But my very favorite movie, so far, is "Riddick". Hands down. Can' t wait for your reaction.

" I disband this weird group, go home!" First and last commands of the new Lord Marshall LMAO

Love the ambition of this movie, shame it didnt take off. Love how much they attempted to expand the series.

This movie is way under-rated. It's my favorite of the Riddick movies and I felt it ended just right. Yes, it embraces its inner Conan, which is why it can seem like fantasy, but it still does so in a sci-fi manner. I think Robert E Howard fans really dig this one for that reason.

40:30 "The Necromonger in me, warns you not to go back But the Furyan in me.....Hopes you won't listen"

The set design and overall design is just so fantastic, very unique and cool universe. And riddick being the ultimate badass is always cool

it was stated in the beginning that the lord marshal made a trip to the under verse and came back as half human half something else. that is how he got his powers and knows about the under verse.

lol Mr asks Mrs "so what's his rank now? "oh I dont fucking know, I dont care.." 41:18 🤣

Zhylaw isn't an elemental he manipuates the power of his soul, lord marshals take a trip into the underverse and return half alive, half dead and can manipulate their soulpower he is super fast because he can detach his soul from his body, when he moces his soul his body than follows it at a near instant speed

When you said, " that's an aggressive entry" I blurted out, "that's what she said" haha, couldn't help it. My gf laughed. Good times... we love y'alls channel, good movie choice

„Look, I'm not with everyone here. But I will take a piece of him.“

The Lord Marshall is not an Elemental, he is what the Necros call HALF-DEAD He has the ability to astro project his literal soul to many different places including the UNDERVERSE.....

18:56 "They must not be able to convert him." "He's too strong." Yeah, Riddickulously so. 😎

Perfect time to remind you that Riddick was Vin Deisel's D&D character.

There is also an animated movie, “Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury” that is a direct follow up to Pitch Black and I believe connects to the Butcher Bay video game.

Chronicles of Riddick takes place in the Warhammer 40K universe during the stellar exodus. I will die on this hill.

The eyes do not happen for every furian. It's like in the new mortal Kombat when they discover their arcana. It is a sign of a great warrior when it does happen.

Greatest movie ever made! I love the directors cut with all the riddickulous facts and geeky back story Dude with knife in the back had a whole storyline written.

Hello, this is actually consider the 3rd part of the series if you count Dark Fury. It is an animated 30 mins video picking up right after Pitch Black. You should watch it to understand the beginning of Chronicles and a bit behind the Tomb's character. Great series and I love watching all of your videos and both of your reactions.

48:25 - "he doesn't like to hang out with others" Definitely the elementary school "plays well with others" vibe.

I might be one of the only people in the world that saw this in theaters twice. Once when it came out and then again on my birthday. That's how much I like it

46:07 The lord-marshall isn't an elemental, he's a half-dead. He was given powers by exposing himself to the Under-verse

My dad worked on this movie he did a lot of Matte paintings in it, I'm excited for this video

The girl who plays Kira is in the tv show Angel she plays a comic book character called Gwen Raiden.

Finally, this movie is getting recognized 🔥🔥

There is something about these three movies that really paint a realism but also a really cool universe that could be expanded on endlessly it was also very engrossing

I really don't understand why this movie isn't considered head and shoulders above *Pitch Black.* The world and story have such epic potential, much more than a monsters in the dark movie.

Vin Diesel was such a fan of Judi Dench that he filled her entire dressing room with roses to entice her to be in the movie,

Necro is the Latin word for course, dead body, death, etc Monger is another Latin for trader, seller, merchant, etc. The word monger was actually a very good word to use but after the 16th century it got a 2nd meaning. Basically to describe someone like to spread lies and rumors for their own gain and push a certain agenda or someone that does bad stuff. Like a warmonger, wh-0remonger, etc.

This is one of my favorite movies. I love Riddick as a "super hero" and the world and lore and everything! There's a real lack of expansive sci-fi fantasy movies out there, and Riddick would've definitely deserved more attention and additional movies or a tv show or something.

30:11 Necros call everyone still alive and able to have children breeders

This is my favorite Riddick movie, it's so good.

Best way I've heard the transition from Pitch Black to Chronicles of Riddick: "It's like watching Alien, and then when the blue-collar space-trucker gets back home, you find out she's from fucking Narnia or something."

riddick wasn’t in a conversion chamber they were scanning his brain for memories hence why they said dont struggle n let them scan his brain without a fight

Chronicles is the finest of the Riddick films and could stand alone as THE Riddick film

he actually DID get eye surgery. the video game Escape From Butchers Bay tells the whole story. it's an old game but it was really wonderful at the time. vin diesel and the guy who plays Johns did some great voice acting in it

Young Karl Urban? Lol! You should see him when he was on Xena: Warrior Princess the 90s TV show! Where he first played Cupid, then later played Julius Caesar.

Yeeessss wasn’t expecting this so fast. I love riddick. Such a bad ass

From everything I've seen, the "shine job" story about the eyes in a dark prison seems to hold up, and be the best reason for those eyes!

Oh it's been a while since I watched this one but it will be a pleasure to revisit it with you two. This ought to be good. :)

from what i read on riddick wiki every furyan during war with necromongers killed 100 warriors with gun and 30 with bare hand so yeah Riddick is tough mofo

You should have seen Karl Urban when he was in Xena: Warrior Princess where he played Julius Caesar. Gid was he ever young back in the 90s. Oddly enough, he would go on to play two more characters in that show, one a kind of ideologue to Cain and Abel (in which he was the eldest son who tried to use non religious ways to convince his father to kill his second youngest son) and he also played Cupid, the son of Aphrodite, a Greek God, It was also his main acting debut in that show.

Even though the 4th movie isn't out yet there is more on Riddick there was also 2 video games and an animated movie on Riddick and there might of been a comic or novel or something as well can't remember for sure on that but anyway to put Riddicks story in order the 2 video games chronicles of Riddick escape from butcher Bay which is a prequel to pitch black and happened before pitch black cause it shows how he got those eyes that allows him to see in the dark than there was the second video game chronicles of Riddick assault on dark Athena which continued after escape from butcher Bay than pitch black came after that than the animated movie the chronicles of Riddick dark fury which bridges the gap between the first and 2 movie cause it continues where pitch black ends before the chronicles of Riddick begins than you have Riddick than the 4th movie chronicles of Riddick furya

the main antagonist is not elemental. he go to the underverse and came back, thats why he have this sort of powers.

The whole exchange starting around 21:43 had me howling 😂

I just love that bantering between you two.

Actually I liked this movies a lot more than Pitch Black, the universe and story looked very promising. What you hate is what I liked. I wished to see a continuation of this , would be very interesting to see what Riddick would do now that he is in charge of a whole army.

There is also an animated Riddick movie called The Chronicles of Riddick Dark Fury is follows the event from the first film.

I love this movie! I never understood why a bigger franchise wasn't formed around this universe. The Necromongers kind of remind me of the "Imperium of Man" from Warhammer 40K.

Ok so they call Riddick a breeder cause necromongers can't have children and breeder is what they refer to all non-necromongers as. Necromongers also cannot feel pain which is what that mark on the neck does to them so they aren't invincible, they just cant feel the damage done to them or at least it is numbed a great deal and explains why they seem inhumanly strong at times like when Vako breaks that dudes spine. And in defense of the shakey cam: they only seem to do it when it's on Riddick to illustrate how quick he seems to be and I actually love it for that purpose. Oh. And to explain his eyes; about 20% of male Furyans have them. They are the alpha furyans as they are the fastest, strongest, and most in touch with their animal side. Because of how Riddick was brought up, he's likely the most dangerous of his kind if they were still alive making him personify the strengths of his race to the extreme.

There are several scenes in this version that was not in the movie. Seeing his mother and the self-detonation blast was not in the movie as I recall and I saw the original many times.

Oh man, i love her commentary🤣. the way she say "Parkour'' just gets me

41:08 “Think he waited till the sun went down?” Well seeing as it’s dark-ish as the ship leaves 😂😂😂

Actually many don’t know or choose to ignore but Chronicles of Riddick is third movie within the franchise, second film of PITCH BLACK was PITCH BLACK 2: DARK FURY animated version which follows their journey from the planet and ends up in deep space where they run into trouble then Riddick leaves young jack with the gentleman who escaped with them that leads us to the next movie where the girl jack aka KARA is all grown up and the man is back with his family in Numaka city (I think). *On that note, it’s understandable that the animated version got lost in translation since it’s not very favorable b/c its production quality was so early 2000s dark horse animation.* Fourth one is just titled RIDDICK.

There is an explanation of Riddick's eyes in a game in 2005 called: Riddick Escape from butcher bay. ))) he had to kill the top dog & implant it's eyes for a chance in his escaping efforts...it definitely worked out nice.)))

Oh, I forgot that Kyra was played by Alexa Davalos, she is really great in "The Man in the High Castle"! Riddick is always fun. 👌

Monger: Denoting a dealer or trader in a specified commodity. Examples: Fishmonger, Warmonger, and in this case Deathmonger (death dealer) Also if you're not a huge fan of sci-fi, the third movie should be a lot better, I really liked it even though it seems a lot of people don't.

Yeah, this was the first movie I saw of the franchise. I thought it was a standalone, with a weird name, and assumed the references to the first movie weren't really references, but exposition. I didn't find out about Pitch Black until years later. And then the third one came out and I wasn't even aware of that one either for quite a while.

There was an animated movie The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury that was made with Vin Diesel doing the voiceover. The movie took place between pitch-black and this movie.

There are actually four Riddick movies, not three. The second one is an animated movie which I believe is in the extras menu of this movie. The animated movie shows what happened right after Pitch Black and why they had to split up.

Oh you watched the special edition there's a lot of movies where they cut out the right stuff for the theatrical cut. This is one of them. You should also watch Dark Fury, It fits in between pitch black and the Chronicles of Riddick

Man my step dad and I seen this in the theaters. Awesome movie, we seen so many awesome movies in theaters.

I'm glad this man knew the surgery story was fake and that Riddick has those eyes because he's a specific type of Furyan.

This one is my favorite out of the three.

This is one of my favorite cult classic franchises. I’m a massive Vin Diesel fan. I just love the way he is such a stoic actor and yet carries such a presence. That’s not an easy skill to master. But this sequel made me so angry when it killed off Jack. I don’t understand the decision from any level. Storyline wise it’s stupid. Riddick doesn’t make any big moves after she dies. He kills the Lord Marshal because she was wounded trying to save him. But Jack didn’t have to die for the story to continue. She could have been close to death and her fate left to be revealed in the third film. Shock-factor wise, again stupid. The shock comes when Jack is tossed into the spikes, not when she dies. Her actual moment of death isn’t even lingered on. Only his reaction is. She dies, he puts her down and sits down in devastation. Character arc wise , absolutely asinine. Adult Jack is a great character that had so much potential. And her on-screen chemistry with Riddick made this movie. If the studio was worried that an adult Jack would be seen more as a love interest than a younger sister, then they clearly did not understand Riddick in Pitch Black. Or in this film. Nothing about the Riddick-Jack/Kyra scenes ever said sexual tension. He is a rough man who uses violence to prove points, but he never treats Jack/Kyra like he wants to get her into bed. Even the arm between her legs scene is only a move to immobilize her so she can’t fight. All he ever seems to have on his mind is keeping her in line-like father to a daughter-and keeping her protected. Which is why he gets so angry when he finds out she was turned into a sex slave at 12. Jack/Kyra was a pitch-perfect screen partner for Riddick. The franchise did her wrong. She should have survived this movie. And maybe even the whole franchise. I even would have been more than fine with only sporadic appearances in the franchise after CoR because she’s recovering from her injuries or fighting the Necromonger reprogramming, or Riddick forced her to go into hiding. Something besides death. Another cult classic franchise did the same thing-kill off the child the protagonist saved/protected in the first movie as soon as she became an adult in the sequel. I can’t say which one because you might watch it one day. But it was just as stupid a story choice there too. It meant nothing to the plot or the franchise to lose her. And it should have meant everything.

You mentioned that Riddick's eyes are that way because he's Furyan...That's a subject that is widely debated because of THIS movie. Some sources list his own story about getting a "shine job" done while in Butcher's Bay; others that it was another prison entirely and even others saying that it is a latent Furyan ability. So that actual truth depends on which source of media you follow.

3:50 comment, coughing Parlour [fat finger flubb...ParK!our-EMJ] when anyone across movies jumps or actions right, is like,, the best!!-Ernie Moore Jr. 3:57

There is actually another movie ( Dark Fury) that takes place between pitch black and the Chronicles of Riddick. But due to budget it was a cartoon with the three main characters being voiced by the actors.

Warmongers and Fishmongers are pretty common usage words to describe what someone does. Necromongers just describes what they deal in. DEATH

I don't think Kyra ran towards the animals, just that THAT one happened to be blocking her path.

They made Riddick video games too, 'Escape from Butcher's Bay' is pretty awesome.

It was confirmed a month ago the fourth movie will start production very soon

This is my first time watching you guys, And I love it. It's quaint, it's nice, and I love what's you're name's reactions and your calls are close, you must be a movie nerd XD

This movie is legendary

Fun Fact: Thandiwe Newton, the actress who places Dame Vaako, is the mother of Nico Parker, the girl who played Sarah in the live action "The Last of Us" tv show.

My favorite of the 3 by far..although for some reason people hate on it. Should have been a huge franchise for this. But hey I like the Star Wars prequels maybe more than the newer ones..I like world building.

03:10 X-monger is a person in the trade of X. e.g cheesemonger, ironmonger. In this case, the ones dealing out death.

26:33 sweet how you guys randomly hold hands

One of my favorite Vin Diesel films after these is The Last Witch Hunter!

This one's chock full of great lines and one of those odd movies I think about randomly.

The Chronicles of Riddick is a DAMN GOOD MOVIE . . . pure and simple!

The DUNE inspiration is very obvious complete with H R Giger inspired sets on costumes (H R Giger was originally hired to work on an adaption DUNE before David Lynch). If you watched DUNE (1984) and then this you would definitely be getting a sense of deja vu. Riddick starts with a scene that looks a lot like the Sardaukar attack on Arrakeen and the last scenes is basically knife fight between Feyd and Paul. The weirder element in Riddick also felt kind of DUNE like.

I have always respected how straight up nerdy this movie is. Its not just a sci fi universe, its a deep lore, elemental witch ladies, undead empires, bio technology universe. It just throws you into it, like yeah you liked that low budget horror about a killer, here have this long epic about space politics and a killer. I find myself sort of intrigued by the sci fi lore, but its just so out of nowhere feeling.

Yeah, about what you said at the beginning. I did see Chronicles of Riddick without knowing that Pitch Black existed. I was, indeed, confused.

This is not the second part of the Riddick story, there is an animated installment called dark fury that ties pitch black and chronicles of Riddick together and shows how Jack/kira evolved.

Necro meaning death, Monger meaning a dealer or trader in a specified commodity so "Dealers of Death" i soo loive the Riddick films...

I finally bought yer YMTM perfume from your store, now in the convenient 35 gallon drum. Nice. On with the show...

The "shine" was implied in the movie was a treatment he had done to his eyes at some point not some mutation.

The next one is my favorite.The story’s simple,but I thought it was fun.Expect to see another personality in it that you both know from a well loved science-fiction property.

Riddick was alpha, even to those fire cats or whatever they were

I've never seen this version and didn't know it existed.

This is a fantastic movie and they were like it was alright. 😅

If the sun is scorching the ground like that every day, then how did they build the prison and all the tunnel systems connected to it? There wouldn't be time enough, or they would be doing it extremely slowly every day.