Five Days To Midnight & Pitch Black
5 Days To Midnight is a long movie/short miniseries (it was put into 5 hours of TV) on SciFi. To summarize, it is about a guy who finds a briefcase with his name on it. Inside are details of his death, 5 days away. Analysis of the contents and the case show it to be from 50 years in the future. Of course he then spends the rest of the time first starting to believe that it is true and then trying to not die. He has a list of suspects, but he doesn’t really know who it is, and they pretty much all come out acting kind of shady. It is a SciFi original production, which is really a point against it to start out with. A lot of their stuff looks good in the previews and then comes out pretty bad in reality. This one came out so-so. It kind of felt like it started to drag somewhat in the last hour or two, despite everything picking up in pace. By the last hour I had guessed (correctly) whodunit. Still, it was entertaining overall. I still can’t figure out the name though. He is slated to die at 3:55 AM, not midnight. SciFi does have some other interesting things coming up, including Stargate Atlantis, Earthsea, and a series based on the Battlestar Galactica miniseries from late last year (which looks like it includes all of the cast members from it).
I have wanted to see Pitch Black for a long time, and I finally did. It was OK. A ship crashes on a planet and once there, they find that there are some nasty creates living underground that can’t come out into the light. They also find there to be 3 stars, and that there is no night. Unfortunately, every 22 years a planet eclipses one or two of the stars and suddenly the nasties are free to roam the planet. Vin Diesel’s character, Riddick, is supposed to be a prisoner, but he’s not necessarily such a bad guy. This movie was OK at best, and I can’t understand why they made a sequel. Given, the sequel just explores the character of Riddick in more detail, but the first movie only brought in about $40 million. It might not have even broke even for that amount. The second isn’t doing terribly better, bringing in only slightly over $50 million after being out for a few weeks now.
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By the last hour YOU had guessed correctly? You? Last I remember, *I* was the one who suggested that particular twist.
I was thinking the same thing.