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.
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08/10/08
Dark City (1998)
76 %
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Reviews Counted: 76
Fresh: 58
Rotten:18
Average Rating: 7/10
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 trail and a psychiatrist skulking around,... [More]
Starring: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien
Director: Alex Proyas
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Reviews for Dark City
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
Top Critic 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
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City ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years.
04/28/08
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Top Critic 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
Top Critic 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
Top Critic 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 It does not take long to realize that there is a lot less here than meets the eye.
04/28/08
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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
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
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