Pitch Black

Low-budget this may be, but it's evident from the word go that writer/director Twohy has wrung every last drop from it...

Pitch Black does have a nice look, all bleached blues and desert sands. And there are some promising story elements...

...offers everything its bigger brother blockbusters so often fail to deliver.

Pitch Black can be viewed as a slick, stylish version of the kind of outer space creature feature that is typified best by the Alien movies. At its best (which is quite often), Pitch Black is an entertaining effort.

...this handsomely photographed, briskly directed sci-fi fright picture is enjoyable enough on its own limited terms.