Riddick
(R)This was released in 2013, but I didn't see it until 2020. It's the third film in the Riddick franchise (or the fourth, if you count the animated short film "Dark Fury"). At the end of the previous movie, Riddick became the new Lord Marshal of the Necromongers, but at the start of this movie, he's been left for dead on a planet that's basically a vast wasteland filled with dangerous creatures. There's a little flashback that explains how this came to be, and then we get on with the story of Riddick doing all he can to survive. He also raises a hyena-like beast from a pup into adulthood, so I suppose a lot of time must pass that we don't see.) Eventually, Riddick finds an abandoned mercenary station, and uses its beacon to announce his presence to any mercs who might be listening, so they'd come to the planet to collect a bounty on him. (I reckon he's justifiably confident that he could deal with anything they can throw at him, once they get there. For now, he just needs a ship so he can get himself off the planet.)
One ship arrives with a crew led by a guy named Santana. His second in command is Diaz (Dave Bautista, who I know from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies), and there are several other guys I didn't find memorable at all. Before long, a second ship, with a crew led by a guy named Johns, arrives on the planet. His second in command is Dahl (Katee Sackhoff), and there are some more guys I didn't find memorable. (I wouldn't even be able to tell you which people were in which crew, aside from the ones I've named.) Santana has no interest in sharing the bounty with Johns's crew, so Johns says they'll just sit back and not interfere with their attempts to find and capture Riddick... until things get dire enough for Santana to ask for their help. Now, if you're thinking, "Wait, wasn't there a guy named Johns in the first movie?" then congratulations: you are correct, and you have a better memory than I do. The one in this movie is the father of William Johns, and he wants to know what happened to his son. This, I think, makes for a somewhat interesting dramatic level to the movie's plot. I mean, I don't care too much, but it's a nice touch, letting us see that even the "bad guys" can have families, and those families may be understandably disinclined to see their relatives as the bad guys that some people might make them out to be.
Meanwhile... Riddick manages to steal power nodes from both ships, so that no one will be able to leave without him, and they'll have to do it on his terms. But of course, things have to be more complicated than that, so ultimately everyone has to team up to fight off the hordes of scorpion-like beasts that come out at night. Beyond that, I don't want to reveal any details of the plot, though it's safe to say not everyone survives.
Anyway, I found it a reasonably entertaining film, for what it is. Although I also think it felt kind of like "filler" between stories. What I really want to see is for Riddick to find Furya so he (and we) can all learn more about his origins. And there may yet be another film in the franchise where that happens. But for now, we'll just have to wait.