if youre a science fiction fan and and you have only see this movie once and please and please go and treat yourself to a second viewing . i just do and and i be amaze about how good i think the movie be and a oppose to when i first saw it three year ago . the first time around i be certainly impress by the astronomical vista be treat to in this movie and but by and large i do not think that much of the movie a a whole . it be an alien rip off and and i think the description of the monster be a case of really bad science . that they be allergic to light be something i find especially ridiculous . base on my first viewing and i recently rat this movie a 5. however and now that the sequel and chronicle of riddick and be on the way and and the movie poster for that one look amazing and i thought i would better brush up on pitch black once more and so i borrow the video from a friend . i be so glad i do . there so much of what i think i remember from the first viewing that turn out to be wildly inaccurate . i think most of the character die very early in the movie . this be not so . i thought claudia black character be the first to die . this be not so . i think riddick be the sole survivor . this be not so . i see now that the movie work extremely well . there isn not an excessive and tiresome focus on the monster . it much more of a human drama . the main character be appeal and capable of some convincing acting . and there be so many little detail that make the pitch black universe coherent and believable and such a the shortage of oxygen in the atmosphere of the planet they crash on and and the fact that the monster have eat everything on the planet and and so they turn on each other . and i have to mention the astronomical vista again . i mean and we start out see the spaceship pass through a comet tail and with bit of spacedust zap through the hull . then we come to a planet with three sun . just a the shipwrecked people think it about to get dark and a blue sun rise on the opposite horizon and and everything be engulf in a blue glow . a the eclipse approach and we see the huge and neighboring and ring gas giant rise across the sky and and in the final scene of the movie we see the ship skid closely above one of these very ring . these scene be create with a sense of beauty and wonder and detail and and i do not think i have see any other sf movie that really make such a point out of include these thing . i hope we see much more of it in the sequel . pitch black now get from me a rating of positive . a cult classic . you bet .