The Chronicles of Riddick 4K 2004 Ultra HD 2160p

Riddick, the most wanted man in the universe, an ex-convict with the ability to see in the dark, finds himself at the center of a confrontation between two opposing forces - good and evil. Lord Marshal, head of the militant sect of Necromongers, announces the tenth Crusade in the 26th century - perhaps the last in the history of mankind. The tyrant's army is opposed by a wise cosmic race. Trying to free himself from an underground prison, Riddick finds himself aboard the Necromonger ship, where a fantastic battle for the future of all Galaxies, living and dead, begins.

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The Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 science fiction film directed by David Touhy and starring Vin Diesel as the sequel to The Black Hole. The movie “Chronicles of Riddick” received very bad reviews from critics and collected, according to the resource Box Office Mojo, only 115 million dollars. Shooting costs amounted to about 105 million dollars.

Before you say something about Chronicles of Riddick, you need to tell about the Black Hole. The movie miraculously paid off in one weekend, and Vin Diesel, who played the most charismatic space maniac of our time, woke up famous. Because eyes. Because rough and tough. Because R rating and total immersion in the role of the most dangerous criminal in this galaxy. He was good already with his silence, and when he started talking... this is where all the fan hearts were his.

The movie, who doesn't remember, was full of empty spaces, there were no pompous expensive computer beauties in it, the effect was achieved by lighting, camera, long periods of silence, breaking into a mighty explosive action. Excellent work was done by the screenwriters, who invented and brought to life wonderful and fresh characters, cameraman Hugh Johnson (“Soldier Jane”), who made an alien world out of the Australian desert, and experienced New Zealand film composer Graham Revel, who colored all this splendor with the music of the cosmic spheres. David Tui's movie, despite its low budget and general thrashiness, has a direct path to the shortlist of cult movie projects. And a straight path to subsequent expensive high-tech incarnations. The character is too good.

Solid budget - over a hundred million, computer effects from Lukasovskogo ILM, the same writers, the same composer and cameraman, the same Vin Diesel. And those who in 2000 were still inexperienced newcomers, now have many successful projects under their belt. Except that David Toohey himself has nothing to boast about. But it's not a problem, he pulled the first part, he will pull the second. Perhaps it was Vin Diesel's first mistake, who acted from the height of his mighty charisma as a producer of the reincarnation of Riddick, a mistake that he had to correct later on, without correcting it to the end.

The budget required a change in rating - the evil R rating of the first part could hurt the collections. Going out into the universe required a change of genre - the contemporaneous cosmere with grim unexplained bloody events, hysterical secondary characters and long dialogues had to turn into one of the most (if you think about it) archaic and hardened genres at the moment - space opera. That's where the Dark Emperor (Lord Marshal), his Armada (the Necromonger fleet), the obligatory prediction of his demise at the hands of the last Furyan, the Dark Galaxies, cunning elementals from the Four Elemental world, and a host of innocent planets along the way.

Even the terrifyingly alien for such movies “child” rating did not prevent Riddick from doing his thing in a way that no Aragorn and his comrades will do. Knives, axes, “mugs with tea”, just hands and feet went into action, filling the premiere hall of “Pushkinsky” with explosive action sometimes just in silence, humming, compressed by the attention of the hall from the front rows to the balcony. Because this is a spectacle worthy of Richard B. Riddick, Esq.

Let him, that proverbial “children of thirteen and under” and without a drop of blood on the screen something unimaginable is going on. The beauty of a bald beast with white opalescent pupils, a favorite of children and animals, past the seven-hundred-degree heat of the Crematoria, the kindest and fairest maniac in the universe. This beauty is astonishing, making you forget all the flaws of the movie and give a standing ovation at the finale.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (80.4 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1, 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#Japanese: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
#Spanish: DTS 5.1
#French: DTS 5.1

Info Subtitles

English SDH, Bulgarian, Mandarin (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, French (Canadian), German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portuguese), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.