Dark City Reviews

A visionary slice of visceral experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

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]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

mixes visual marvels with B-movie archetypes

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Was "The Matrix" before "The Matrix" was ever in the pop culture lexicon...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

In the annals of noir Sci-Fi, by any measure, this is a Classic of cinematic invention.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

...the movie is mostly style, but it's a style so engrossing, it more than makes up for any lack of substance.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

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.

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[A] stylish hybrid of futuristic thriller and film noir.

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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.

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If you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will.

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Dark City is a truly scary flick.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

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.

| Original Score: 5/5

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.

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Complex, yet extremely compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

An unsettling depiction of reality as elusive and ephemeral.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

e of the most breathtakingly spectacular looking films to come down the pike in some time..

Full Review | Original Score: B+

It's a bit overbearing the first time you experience it, but the film holds up under repeat viewings, revealing more and more complexity and coherence.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

It is a film noir that is either for teenage boys, sci-fi fanatics or movie geeks. It won't appeal to many. But if you fit into one of the above categories you will fall in love with Dark City.

Full Review | Original Score: B

The effects are breathtaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5