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Plot: From the director of "The Crow," an atmospheric melange of styles and substance about aliens, night and unspeakable acts. Interesting, but more than a bit addled.
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MCT:September 4, 2008A dazzling, exicting and unique Sci-fi horror fantasy experience from Alex Proyas is spetacular and uplitfiting.
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MCT:August 31, 2008
What a marvelously crafted unreality. I love how the scope of this film constantly skews bigger and bigger. It's a tad slow, but the plot is continually being revealed. What little time you spend restless in the film becomes worth it in the next scene. The Matrix wishes it were as good as this.
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MCT:August 29, 2008rather indifferent on this one, I mean it's confusing but the plot is so simplistic it's all too funny. I hate how it tries to compare itself to Metropolis (spec. features) how it wasn't at first well recieved but now it's a classic... blah blah blah I'm rather up in the air about it.
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MCT:August 28, 2008
In almost ten years, this movie has not lost its appeal. It has an original screenplay and its simply astonishing in many aspects.
The cinematography is dark and beautiful with many wonderful scenes. The film has a noir feeling to it. Dark and twisted but we like 'em like that.
Like I said, the visuals are great but the effects don't take advantage of the plot, like in so many other scifi movies.
Alex Proyas came an instant favourite of mine. After The Crow, Dark City and I, Robot, I couldn't stop wondering, is this guy a genius or what? -
MCT:August 20, 2008
Bought the directors cut. The special features are worth seeing when it comes to details with the movie.
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MCT:August 17, 2008Unfortunately the good premisses for Dark City wasn't entirely fulfilled - the story is too messy, sometimes ridiculous and I even noticed a few huge flaws. Well, Sci-Fi isn't really my thing and I guess I was too narrow-minded when wahtching it so perhaps my grade is lower than it deserves. Afterall, the beginning is very compelling, the acting is superb and the movie makes some good points about both society and life.
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MCT:August 14, 2008
I've just seen the director's cut of Dark City, and I'm not sure how to feel about it. The movie is improved, to be sure,--strange, since I didn't think it could be much better than it already was--but I'm uncertain as to how much it is improved. I will definitely say that the director's cut is hands-down better than the theatrical version. The elimination of Schreber's opening narration really affects the viewing of the rest of the film in a wonderful way. I honestly wish this had been the way I'd first seen the movie, as it shrouds all the events in a great deal of mystery rather than cluing you in on what's happening from the get-go. (Of course, being a huge reader of comics and science fiction, I imagine I still would have had some of the elements figured out before the big reveals.)
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I suppose you could call this an existentialist film in that the main character ends up being able to create his own reality in a very literal sense. Of course, it has a much more optimistic tone by the end of the film than most existential stories do. It's actually quite surprising how this film shares such similar elements and themes with The Matrix, which came out the following year. (I'm not, by any means, trying to suggest that The Matrix ripped off Dark City, as they were both in development at the same time.) Obviously, The Matrix took a much poppier, summer-blockbustery approach than Dark City, but they still have very similar things they're trying to say.
I've always been disappointed that this movie doesn't quite get the recognition it deserves. I only hope that its popularity will continue to grow as more people discover it on DVD. (I was one of the lucky few to see it in theaters,--twice, no less--and it was the first DVD I ever owned or saw.) -
MCT:August 11, 2008
Cool dark SF flick, with an interesting premise. I feel in some ways Dark City is the spiritual predecessor to The Matrix.
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MCT:August 9, 2008I Love this movie. So Many layers and you learn something new each time that you see it. I definitely recommend the directors cut that was just released. No voice over and I think that there were a lot less Jump Cuts than in the theatrical release. Plus they add a back story to the hooker that John Doesn't kill. A very important plot point that was not explained in the theatrical cut.
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MCT:August 9, 2008
Unlike the other mystery films I've seen recently, this had the dark atmosphere that I adore combined with excellent dialogue and acting from all the actors. Obviously I enjoyed the story as well with quite the powerful protagonist.
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MCT:August 3, 2008
John Murdoch: When was the last time you remember doing something during the day?
Inspector Frank Bumstead: What do you mean?
John Murdoch: I just mean during the day. Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory, I mean like yesterday. Last week. Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something, I don't think the sun even... exists... in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here.
A man wakes up with no memories of who he is. He discovers a corpse in his room and a bloody knife, and heads out into the night. Soon he learns of a women he loves, a detective on his trail, a doctor claiming to want to help him, and mysterious figures dressed in black chasing him.
Inspector Frank Bumstead: So Husselbeck, what kind of killer do you think stops to save a dying fish?
I love watching this movie. The story is very cool and made in the genre bending style combining noir and sci fi elements.
The sets and artistic design of the characters, the city they live in, and what lies beneath is very well constructed and very fitting to what occurs with the plot.
John Murdoch: Hey, do you know the way to Shell Beach?
Rufus Sewell as the lost soul with more to him than he knows is great. Kiefer Sutherland is very creepy and effective as a sad doctor left with no choice. Jeniffer Connelly is very hot and low key in a new take on the femme fatale. And William Hurt is very cool in the classic role as the detective hot on everyone's trail.
Inspector Frank Bumstead: No one ever listens to me.
Special notice goes to Richard O'Brien as Mr. Hand as well, who becomes more and more interesting, the more I watch this film.
Mr. Hand: [stomps on a newspaper clipping] So it seems you discovered your unpleasant nature.
John Murdoch: Who are you?
Mr. Hand: We might ask the same question, yes? Sleep... now.
I'm glad that this has become a cult favorite for so many, because it's so much of a joy to watch. As the plot unfolds further and further, with a number of unique twists, it is very easy to stay involved with this story.
Further, being a film about people who have certain abilities, its easy to want to go in and pick it apart, but its just as easy to let the director, writers, and company layout a story and let them develop it on their own terms. That being said, the movie works so well in presenting its ideas amidst the heavy stylized presentation of the film.
Emma Murdoch: It's beautiful.
Inspector Frank Bumstead: It was a gift from my mother. She died recently. I keep it with me to remind me of her.
Emma Murdoch: I'm sorry.
Inspector Frank Bumstead: It's a funny thing, though. I can't remember WHEN she gave it to me. How do you think I could forget a thing like this?
I can only hope the forth coming director's cut is even better. A brilliant Sci-Fi Film Noir.
Update: With the release of the new director's cut, I was able to see a great film get even better. This new version, which director Alex Proyas says to be much closer to how he originally imagined the film makes several changes that benefit the film overall. They include an omission of the opening narration and the swapping of some scenes, keeping the story more of a mystery for the audience for longer. Extended scenes also slow the pace of the movie for the sake of building the characters and the plot better, as well as the addition of a few new plot strands. Minor changes in the effects as well make a bit of a difference. The director's cut is overall my now preferred version, and while both cuts are wonderful, it is certainly the one worth watching.
Dr. Schreber: Remember John, never talk to strangers! -
MCT:August 2, 2008
Director's Cut:
WOW! Thats all I can really say. The Director's Cut feels like a completely different movie. Doesn't give anything away in the Director's Cut. People who are watching this need to know that this came out a year before the Matrix. So the Matrix was a 80% copy of this movie.l -
MCT:August 1, 2008
This is quite possibly, one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.
There are twists and turns in the movie and when I first watched it, I didn't know what was going on...
I continue to watch it over and over again. Awesome movie, Awesome music, awesome acting. -
MCT:July 31, 2008
Just watched the Directors cut and found it still to be entertaining and original as it was first released.
Rufus Sewell has talent but doesn't get many leading roles, maybe due to the eye thing..who knows. Kiefer Sutherland does an amazing job supporting this movie its crazy. But the thing I like most is the whole look and feel to the movie. It's dark....It's meant to be and it definetly has a creepy moment or two. -
MCT:July 28, 2008
If you love great science fiction, you must see this movie. One of my very favorites. Dark, cerebral, and alot of fun to watch.
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MCT:July 24, 2008
Words cannot describe the awesomeness of this movie. Every single actor in it did brilliantly and the cinematography was beautiful the sets were fantastic and I all in all loved it
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MCT:July 21, 2008
Its been one of my favorites for such a long time. Always a reliable dvd choice. Dark, murky, almost graphic novel like.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
the idea of this film is just fantastic ...
nice stars
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MCT:July 18, 2008
Nice concept supplemented by good performances..I have developed a liking for sci-fi movies after watching this..
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MCT:July 17, 2008
i luv how in the film it's always night, how there is only artificial illumination mixed with everyone having no memory. i also luv the involuntary dettachment the characters have with each other and their environment. could proyas be trying to say something?
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MCT:July 17, 2008
It is an instant classic!
I'm glad that they eventually removed Jeff Shannons critique of this movie, that guy is a dumbass douche!!
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MCT:July 10, 2008
This is a sci-fi film noir. This movie will blow your mind away. You don't know where is headed most of the time and it has one the best endings I've seen in a long time.
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MCT:July 8, 2008
This movie was a little bit weird for my liking, I have watched a few odd ones but this is not one that really got me...
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MCT:July 8, 2008
Why have I never rated this before??? Amazingly shot, surreal acting (which works perfectly with the subject matter) and a brilliantly executed narrative.
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tommyboy715posted 35 days ago -
The first time I saw this movie I missed the first six minutes, when I next saw it I was amazed that they give away the twist.
Why is that?posted 38 days ago -
