Here we go again for another trip into the future and a world which isn't nearly as nice as ours, regardless of floods and fuel protests.

Don't you dare mention Sigourney Weaver again

After crash landing on a distant planet, a group of travellers fight to survive.

Their plight is made all the more difficult when a duel solar eclipse plunges their new home into darkness.

The pitch black of the title brings with it a host of creatures you wouldn't want to meet with the lights on, let alone in the dark.

What's worse, they find the new human inhabitants a tasty treat.

Yum yum. Do I look scary?

Time to pull together you might think. Unfortunately, the crew don't get on. Indeed, there's a power struggle taking place, made all the worse by the fact one of the survivors is a prisoner being transported to carry out his sentence.

There's more than a touch of Alien to this film which wouldn't be out of place in the science fiction B movies of the 50's.

A largely unknown cast (although Diesel did appear in Saving Private Ryan) put their all into a movie which satisfies without ever reaching great heights.