10 Movies That Did Star Trek Better Than Star Trek‏

4. Pitch Black

What it gets right: Moral ambiguity, scary desert aliens Vin Diesel's Riddick character has suffered from the law of diminishing returns with each new sequel, but his original appearance in the low-budget thriller Pitch Black is still a stonker. It also, on the surface, has nothing in common with Stark Trek, in the same way that Guardians Of The Galaxy doesn't. The crew of the cargo ship Hunter-Gratzner seem like pretty decent people, just trying to muddle by in the universe, counting on a big payday for transporting convicted criminal Richard B Riddick across the cosmos. Turns out things aren't that easy. After being hit by a comet the ship crashes on a desert planet and everybody gets knocked out of cyrostasis, and once they've managed an emergency landing - in which many of the passengers die - the rest of the film is like a moral dual between Riddick's ruthless criminal and the much nicer crew, neatly summarising the difference between old Star Trek and new. Plus the monsters that plague the planet, coming out at night and murdering everyone in their sleep, are like a modern, nightmarish update of Gorn.