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.
6 August 1976, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
21 September 1965, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1 March 1974, Australia
7 April 1943, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
25 September 1952, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
10 August 1960, Orange, New South Wales, Australia
8 February 1956, Nachitoches, Louisiana, USA
12 December 1970, Catskill Mountains, New York, USA
17 September 1945, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
25 March 1942, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK
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]
July 28, 2008
mixes visual marvels with B-movie archetypes
July 27, 2008
Was "The Matrix" before "The Matrix" was ever in the pop culture lexicon...
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
[A] stylish hybrid of futuristic thriller and film noir.
March 31, 2009
A visionary slice of visceral experience.
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.
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.
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 mishmash of iconography lifted from better movies.
