A mishmash of iconography lifted from better movies.
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04/28/08
Dark City (1998)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:12
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Stylishly gloomy, Dark City offers a polarizing whirl of arresting visuals and noirish action.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
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... [More]
Starring: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien
Director: Alex Proyas
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Reviews for Dark City
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Top CriticDark 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 CriticCity ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years.
04/28/08
Top Critic[A] stylish hybrid of futuristic thriller and film noir.
04/28/08
Top CriticProyas 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
Top CriticIf you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will.
04/28/08
Top CriticThis 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 CriticAn almost really good movie lies somewhere in the stylish junkyard of Alex Proyas's Dark City.
04/12/02
Top CriticDark City has as stunning a visual texture as that of any movie that I've seen.
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Top CriticIt is among the most memorable cinematic ventures in recent years.
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Top Critic...a reminder of how sensuous a visual trip movie watching can be.
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Top CriticDark City by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like Metropolis and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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...so relentlessly trippy in a fun-house sort of way that it could very easily inspire a daredevil cult of moviegoers who go back again and again to experience its mind-bending twists and turns.
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Top CriticIt is all well and good that nobody has anything to laugh about in this movie, but the relentless gloom and frothing paranoia soon begin to drag on an earthly audience.
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