Pitch Black (2000)

Most people think so. 75% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 54%, but audiences disagreed.

When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light. Wikipedia ↗

Pitch Black is a 2000 American science fiction horror film directed by David Twohy. Vin Diesel stars as Richard B. Riddick, a dangerous convict with surgically enhanced eyes that allow him to see in total darkness, who is being transported by a bounty hunter when their spacecraft crashes on a desert planet with three suns.

When the survivors discover the planet is inhabited by photosensitive predatory creatures that emerge only in darkness, and that a rare total eclipse is approaching that will plunge the planet into complete blackness, Riddick's night vision becomes the group's only chance of survival. Pitch Black was a lean, effectively terrifying survival horror that established Vin Diesel as a star through a role that required him to be simultaneously threatening and heroic. The moral calculus of trusting a convicted murderer because he's the only one who can see in the dark gave the film genuine tension beyond the creature horror.

Pitch Black earned $53 million worldwide on a $23 million budget and launched the Riddick franchise.