Riddick: The Complete Collection

This set contains all of the Riddick movies (Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Riddick) that starred Vin Diesel in his other, less well-known franchise, as well as the short animated film, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, that bridges the time between Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick. The first movie involves a space freighter carrying both cargo and passengers (including a dangerous criminal on his way to a high-security prison, Diesel's Riddick), encounters difficulty en route, and crashes on a deserted, seemingly lifeless planet with three suns. It then turns into a horror movie as the suns set and the true nature of the plant is revealed. The second movie has some ties to the first movie but is a very different story pitting Riddick against a race of planet invaders called Necromongers. The third movie, is a bit derivative of the first, seeing Riddick stranded on an Alien planet, this time hunted by mercenaries when he activates a beacon on an abandoned ship. Then he has to deal with the mercs and the planet's original inhabitants. Each of the movies looks very good in HD, with, as you would expect, the A/V quality getting better with each movie. There are extras for each of the movies, including commentary tracks on all three movies, deleted scenes for every movie, featurettes on the effects, making of documentaries for each movie, an extended edition of Riddick, and more. So, if you like watching bonus material, there is a lot there for you. Overall, the movies are a good blend of action and, with the first and third, horror/suspense. The acting is okay to good. Diesel is what he is, but each movie has a good supporting cast that makes up for his shortcomings. Between the three movies, they include Cole Hauser, Keith David, Alexa Davalos, Karl Urban, Tandie Newton, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Katee Sackhoff, Keri Hilson, and Dave Bautista. As long as you do not go into them expecting academy-award-winning material, they are enjoyable. The dialogue can get clunky and/or downright dumb sometimes, but the action sequences generally make up for those moments. So, if you like action movies these are good ones to check out.

Excellent series with Vin, this movie has everything to keep you gluded to your seat.

Nice, came with digital for all three movies that work.

The year 2000 saw two breakout movies that established famous franchises. The first one was long awaited, X-Men, and would begin the modern comic-book movie craze. The second, Pitch Black, established Vin Diesel as a solid anti-hero lead who could carry a movie by himself. After Pitch Black came two subsequent theatrical releases, and an animated direct-to-video movie, all of which progress the tale of Richard B. Riddick, criminal, fugitive, warrior, and savior for many. All three live-action theatrical releases also had an extended version available on home video. For fans of the franchise, this is a great purchase as all three live-action films come in both the theatrical and extended versions, with one disc per movie, both versions of each movie on the same disc. The discs come with all the standard features one would expect from a major Hollywood flick.. You have the interviews with cast and crew, making-of featurettes, and the benefit of two cartoons. The Pitch Black disc contains the Dark Fury cartoon, which bridges Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick theatrical film. The Riddick disc contains a cartoon that expands upon some scenes in the movie itself. The graphics and audio for all the movies are spot on, and look fine to all but the most discerning viewer. The extended versions of the movies are each about 10 minutes longer than the theatrical version, with no major plot changes or additional characters. What you get are some small details. For example, the Riddick extended edition has some extra scenes of Riddick with the Necro-mongers, and some partial nudity on the part of Katee Sackhoff's character Dahl. Overall, this is a great purchase if one can get it at less than the sum of the prices of the four movies individually. And a great purchase for any Vin Diesel fan.

I enjoy the Riddick universe alot. I had an older collection on DVD for a while and it eventually succumbed to issues with disc rot. So it made sense to come to Amazon to look for an updated version with the newest film inside of it. This collection is great for the most part. It's almost every film in 1080p. It all looks about as good as it can with my vision issues. You have various versions of the films as well as extra features. It's a pretty good package. Where it really fails is that where they took time to remaster all of the baseline films, the short film known as dark fury was left in a very ugly, heavily interlaced, 480p. Dark fury was an animated short film that was released later that bridges the gap between pitch black and the chronicles of Riddick. It introduces various characters and it was created by the mind behind the TV show aeon flux. It's very sad to see them go through this effort to remaster the other films only to leave dark fury on the sidelines. This collection is great. How they handled dark fury was not. Kinda disappointed.

Quality Product

Fun movie collection.

Excellent for the price, 4K and blu-ray was awesome.

I didn't like the idea you sent me it doesn't work at all why are you sell dvds that don't work im not happy😠

Excelente colección para quienes les gusta tener en físico las películas.

Filme mit Vin Diesel sind einfach unterhaltsam und reich an Aktion. Diesen Klassiker muß an gesehen haben.

En Español latino, no en castellano (y dark fury solo tiene subtítulos en español). Por lo demás, bien de precio y bien de calidad.

Arrived on time. Good condition.