Something went wrong
Try again later.
Dark City (1998)
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. He then seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity, struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun.
17 September 1945, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
28 March 1929, Malopolskie, Poland
21 December 1966, Paddington, London, England, UK
March 31, 2009
A visionary slice of visceral experience.
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.
April 28, 2008
City ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years.
July 28, 2008
mixes visual marvels with B-movie archetypes
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
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.
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.
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.
July 27, 2008
Was "The Matrix" before "The Matrix" was ever in the pop culture lexicon...
April 28, 2008
A mishmash of iconography lifted from better movies.
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]
