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Dark City
In this film, John Murdoch finds himself alone in a strange hotel to find that he is accused in a series of brutal murders. It seems that this puzzle will be very strange, as Gom tries to uncover the twisted puzzle of his identity, and struggles with memories of his past for it. Now, John must try to remember the wife he can't remember, in a dangerous nightmare world.
7 April 1943, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
17 August 1958, Huddersfield, England, UK
7 April 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
12 December 1970, Catskill Mountains, New York, USA
1956
6 August 1976, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
July 27, 2008
Was "The Matrix" before "The Matrix" was ever in the pop culture lexicon...
April 28, 2008
If you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will.
April 28, 2008
[A] stylish hybrid of futuristic thriller and film noir.
July 28, 2008
mixes visual marvels with B-movie archetypes
August 10, 2008
The experience of Dark City is one that no film lover should miss... seen now as it was intended after 10 long years of wandering in the shadows.
January 07, 2009
Writer/Director Alex Proyas needs to stop it with the writing and concentrate on making the pretty. He needs to find a good script and just direct it.
April 28, 2008
Dark City trades in such weighty themes as memory, thought control, human will and the altering of reality, but is engaging mostly in the degree to which it creates and sustains a visually startling alternate universe.
August 05, 2008
Proyas assembles his inspirations into a unique amalgam with the power of myth to tap the fears and desires of our collective unconscious. [Blu-Ray]
April 28, 2008
City ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years.
April 28, 2008
Proyas floods the screen with cinematic and literary references ranging from Murnau and Lang to Kafka and Orwell, creating a unique yet utterly convincing world.
April 28, 2008
A mishmash of iconography lifted from better movies.
March 31, 2009
A visionary slice of visceral experience.