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Dark City

1998

Alex Proyas

Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly ...

6.9

28,213

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Film noir 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 presence of strange extraterrestrial creatures, the Strangers, who are experimenting with the memories of the humans in his city--from which there may ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like 'Metropolis' and '2001: A Space Odyssey' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"[Proyas] is so distracted with his gloomy vision of the city that he forgot to actually write anything approaching a coherent story (...) It's the sheer overwhelming style that gets [it] through (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"[It] eventually turns into something rare and wondrous (...) If you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[It] has as stunning a visual texture as that of any movie that I've seen (...) [It] offers a gratifyingly original and stunning science fiction experience (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"It is among the most memorable cinematic ventures in recent years."	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"So relentlessly trippy in a fun-house sort of way that it could very easily inspire a daredevil cult of moviegoers"	POS
United States	Paul Tatara CNN	"This is one of those movies that's more concerned with set design motivation than anything that's going on inside the characters' heads (...) Think of a loud, unimaginably confused (visually as well as narratively) 'Brazil'."	NEG
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"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."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"[A] fascinating, visionary filmmaking that captures the sensation of dreaming and being unable to wake up."	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"[A] stylish hybrid of futuristic thriller and film noir."	POS
United States	Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"[It] steeps itself in film history. It’s at once referential to its many influences, prescient in the way it anticipates the similarly themed 'The Matrix' (which came out a year later), and subtly influential."	POS

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