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Here we
go again for another trip into the future and a world which
isn't nearly as nice as ours, regardless of floods and fuel
protests.
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| Don't
you dare mention Sigourney Weaver again |
After
crash landing on a distant planet, a group of travellers fight
to survive.
Their
plight is made all the more difficult when a duel solar eclipse
plunges their new home into darkness.
The pitch
black of the title brings with it a host of creatures you
wouldn't want to meet with the lights on, let alone in the
dark.
What's
worse, they find the new human inhabitants a tasty treat.
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| Yum
yum. Do I look scary? |
Time to
pull together you might think. Unfortunately, the crew don't
get on. Indeed, there's a power struggle taking place, made
all the worse by the fact one of the survivors is a prisoner
being transported to carry out his sentence.
There's
more than a touch of Alien to this film which wouldn't
be out of place in the science fiction B movies of the 50's.
A largely
unknown cast (although Diesel did appear in Saving Private
Ryan) put their all into a movie which satisfies without
ever reaching great heights.
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