Pitch Black' leaves audience in the dark

Good ideas don't always make for good movies. In the case of Pitch Black, a movie about killer aliens that can survive only in darkness, director David Twohy seems to think that this central plot point is so fascinating that there's no need to bother fleshing out the story or developing the characters. The result is a sub-par film that plods along like any monster movie: people are killed one by one until, well, you know the rest. While Pitch Black is occasionally suspenseful and even interesting at times, overall, the movie is little more than a paint-by-number sci-fi flick.