10 Terrible Movie Sequels That Prove Bigger Definitely Doesn't Mean Better
9. The Chronicles of Riddick
The turn-of-the-millennium double-whammy of Pitch Black and The Fast and the Furious had established Vin Diesel as Hollywood's next action megastar in waiting, and after adding another hit to his resume with XXX he once again donned the goggles of Richard B. Riddick.
Whereas Pitch Black was a lean and mean sci-fi horror that was fully aware it was a B-movie, Diesel and director David Twohy decided that follow-up The Chronicles of Riddick should be an epic space opera with designs on filling the void left by Star Wars, but when all was said and done all they ended up with was a box office bomb.
Chronicles' $120m budget made it almost five times as expensive as Pitch Black, but Riddick's debut had earned its budget back twice over in theaters, while the sequel failed to even recoup the production costs. Dull, ponderous and not interesting in the slightest, it would be almost a decade before Diesel returned the character to his roots in the much smaller-scale and more well-received Riddick in 2013.