THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK (2004)

 

Directed by: David Twohy

Starring: Vin Diesel, Alexa Davalos, Thandie Newton, Karl Urban, Judi Dench, Keith David, Colm Feore, Nick Chinlund, Linus Roache, Yorick van Wageningen, Kim Hawthorne, Christina Cox, Alexis Llewellyn, Peter Williams

135 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:

Five years ago, escaped convict Richard Bruno Riddick escaped from a desert planet with his two companions, religious man Abu "Imam" al-Walid and runaway teenage girl Jack. After five years wandering across the outskirts of the galaxy and being hunted by bounty hunters claiming the bounty on his head, Riddick arrives on the colonized planet New Mecca, he learns Imam placed the bounty on his head and Jack has been imprisoned on the prison planet "Crematoria" for murder. Riddick learns from Aereon, ambassador of the Elemental race, is seeking out Furians, a race of warriors in a bid to balance the universe, as a warrior army known as "The Necromongers", led by the evil undead Lord Marshal,are invading every planet in the galaxy and cleansing all of humanity in their goal for universal conquest. Believing Riddick is a Furian warrior, Aereon decides to hire him, believing he is the one man who can stop the Lord Marshal and the Necromongers. When the Necromongers attack New Mecca, Riddick is captured by cocky bounty hunter Toombs (Nick Chinlund) and his crew, and he is transported to Crematoria, where he reunites with Jack, now named "Kyra". Riddick and Kyra escape to the planet's sun-ravaged surface, where Riddick, helped by Necromonger warrior Vaako and his sexy wife Dame Vaako, sets out to defeat the Lord Marshal and save the universe from his rule and save the rest of humanity from being converted into Nercomonger warriors.

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