It does not take long to realize that there is a lot less here than meets the eye.
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04/28/08
Dark City (1998)
76 %
Reviews Counted: 75 Fresh: 57 Rotten:18 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus:
Stylishly gloomy, Dark City offers a polarizing whirl of arresting visuals and noirish action.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Synopsis: Upon awakening with a start in an icy bathtub in a strange room--with a woman's dead body inconveniently nearby--John Murdoch can't remember how he got there. With a police detective hot on his trail and a psychiatrist skulking around, Murdoch discovers that the key to his mystery is the... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson
Director: Alex Proyas
Composer: Trevor Jones
Producer: Andrew Mason, Alex Proyas
Story: Alex Proyas
Screenwriter: Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer
Composer: Trevor Jones
Producer: Andrew Mason, Alex Proyas
Story: Alex Proyas
Screenwriter: Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer
Reviews
Top Critic
Murdoch's quandary proves surprisingly engrossing, the art direction is always striking, and unlike most contemporary sci-fi, the movie does risk a cerebral approach, tapping a vein of postmodern paranoia.
01/26/06
Top Critic
Proyas drenches each shot in a unique feel and delivers a movie with a visual sense with all the inventive, poetic power of Ridley Scott or Terry Gilliam firing on all cylinders.
01/01/00
Top Critic
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]
08/05/08
Was "The Matrix" before "The Matrix" was ever in the pop culture lexicon...
07/27/08
In the annals of noir Sci-Fi, by any measure, this is a Classic of cinematic invention.
07/25/08
...the movie is mostly style, but it's a style so engrossing, it more than makes up for any lack of substance.
07/25/08
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.
04/28/08
Top Critic
City ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years.
04/28/08
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.
04/28/08
If you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will.
04/28/08
This is one of those movies that's more concerned with set design motivation than anything that's going on inside the characters' heads.
04/28/08
Top Critic
Um verdadeiro clássico contemporâneo da ficção científica, nos presenteia com um roteiro brilhante, uma fotografia impecável, uma direção de arte belíssima e, é claro, com questionamentos filosósicos incrivelmente instigantes.
06/15/06
The sound and visuals of this movie are not to be missed on the big screen if at all possible.
05/26/06
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