
When a spacecraft carrying an assortment of passengers is forced to make a crash landing on a barren triple-sunned planet the ship is ripped into pieces The disaster kills several crewmembers & leaves meek officer Fry (Radha Mitchell) in charge of the survivors
- one of whom is Richard B Riddick (Vin Diesel) a dangerous shackled murderer who was being transported between prisons & who has acquired the superhuman ability to see in total darkness