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...corners and gray areas in troubled teens in small, off-Broadwayish movies. He was a critics' darling before he was a heartthrob. The easy ingratiation he paraded in Titanic is one of his gifts, but not the most notable. We prefer his off-kilter choice of projects, his perfect pitch within so many of the characters he's played...
...first glance, Pitch Black might seem like your standard sci-fi fare: after a crash landing on an environmentally hostile planet, the survivors encounter a scary alien enemy and then start to die off. For some added fun, this particular planet has no sunsets-it has three suns. At first he survivors' biggest problems are finding water and keeping an eye on a convicted murderer named Riddick who escaped from the ship during the crash...
...Pitch Black is a sort of low-budget production, and though there's good reason to be skeptical of things sci-fi or low- budget in general, the film does surprisingly well given its familiar premise. Besides some interesting visual techniques (what kinds of colors are you supposed to see in a desert?), it also manages to deliver all the fear and anxiety that tempt you to pay $8 for a movie in the first place...
...watch these people deal with emotional and moral dilemmas. Pitch Black's greatest strength is that it actually has a story to tell, and characters that develop and change. Seems like a simplistic idea, doesn't it? But it makes for a cool combination of primal and sophisticated tension and suspense that's wonderfully nerve-wracking to watch...
...Pitch Black can be smart, and it knows that you can be too. The survivors include a group of devout Muslims on their way to "New Mecca" whose faith adds an interesting, if somewhat puzzling dimension to the movie. Disaster forces the question, "where is your God?" The answer turns out to be, like so much else in this film, a welcome surprise...