Pitch Black: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 2 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Susan Wloszczyna USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Pitch Black is one of those annoyingly noisy outer-space thrillers where you can't figure out the characters' names at first, and when you finally do, they are either dead or you hate them.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

50

Barely intermittent, reminding us that the B-movie is still very much with us.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

The screenplay, credited to Twohy with Jim and Ken Wheat, for a scary movie hasn't a scary idea on any of its pages.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

Made to please those who can't get enough rote, cheesy sci-fi, Pitch Black promises to make us long for the glory days of Species 2 and Deepstar Six.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Barbara Shulgasser Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

Director and co-writer David Twohy has stolen from so many other movies in order to cobble together the paltry Pitch Black.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Emanuel Levy Variety (Top Critic)

Ferocious attacks by the planet's monstrous creatures manage only partially to alleviate the tedium that defines the movie.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

Dumb, direct and derivative.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

The script is a compendium of science-fiction cliches, familiar in Hollywood movies since the early fifties.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

A routine sci-fi/horror action-adventure, takes us where we've been countless times before.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Blake French Filmcritic.com

40

...your typical run-for-your-life-the-monsters-are-coming science fiction adventure that requires one to park his brain at the front door of the theater before entering.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

50

Very simple and basic plot with alot of bad acting (Not including Vin Diesel, one of the higher points to this). This wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Steve Biodrowski Cinefantastique

A fairly efficient science fiction monster film, somewhat in the mold of an old 1950s B-movie.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound

63

If only there had been as much time spent on creating believable aliens as there obviously was on the landscape.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion

0

Under the circumstances it's not really fair to blame the actors, whose amateurishness seems appropriate to the material (although Diesel's stolid machismo is so over-the-top as to be pretty laughable).
Full Review » 6 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

A smart, suspenseful sci-fi movie from director Twohy, whose underrated 1996 film, The Arrival, also brought visual imagination and intelligence to the genre.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

Manages to surprise and delight, thanks to its small-scale attitude.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

60

Hey man, it's February. You've already picked through all the leftover Oscar-bait you can take, so it's no time to be picky.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Dragan Antulov Draxblog Movie Reviews

60

PITCH BLACK deserves to be recommended as a solid piece of genre entertainment.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

25

The derivativeness of the script keeps any tensions from building into any kind of scariness.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Forrest Hartman Reno Gazette-Journal

42

Lackluster both as science-fiction and horror.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Matt Brunson Creative Loafing

75

One of the best of the sci-fi spectacles cut from the Alien cloth.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Andrew Manning Radio Free Entertainment

80

A solid entry in the genre of science fiction horror.
Full Review » 8 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

75

The action scenes are good, if sparse.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ted Murphy Hollywood.com

Some hard-core science-fiction fans might nit-pick over details in Pitch Black, but for the average moviegoer looking to be entertained, this roller-coaster of a film should not be missed.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

67

At least as much as The Blair Witch Project before it, Pitch Black shows us how disconcerting total darkness can be.
Full Review » 9 years ago