The look of the city is quite a sight. He does not believe he was responsible for these murders, but the cops think otherwise as they chase him down. It wasn't at all an up-tempo film Hollywood style with lots of explosions and rapid smart dialogs. The sets and costumes are beautiful. 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 be no escape. Most importantly, it rewarded my wildly abandoned reach for human imagination and thirst for ideas, by fulfilling as much promise a motion picture can ever hope to give.
Overall the movie leaves a few unanswered questions, leaving the viewer to conduct their own theories about the outcome of events. In the next room he finds a dead body and a blood stained knife. And each of the card players in turn feels a faceless doom inexorably closing in. Rufus Sewell is excellent as John Murdoch, convincing as an ordinary man on the run from both the law and the strangers. Not only was Dark City first, it also handles the subject much better and more adult than Matrix. Everyone does a great job. Dark City is all about a man who has incredible powers but doesn't realize it.
The audiences grows greatly in a moment of eagerness as they want to determine what will happen next to the characters in this film. Dark City checked none of these boxes. William Hurt is hard and scarred, but soft on the inside. Dark City has been passed over by so many critics it's depressing. The darkness and coldness of the strangers is in contrast to the bright light of the sun created by John Murdoch in the end. It definitely was a new concept in its time, but the movie has aged very badly. Yeah, yeah, yeah the visuals are stunning, blah, blah, blah, but as is proved time and again, visuals alone can't make a movie.
Proyas takes ideas and ambience from many other movies but integrates them all neatly into Dark City. Great for a fight scene, but because the rest of the movie focuses on John Murdoch's quest to discover his past and the eerie, ominous happenings in the city, the climax seemed hastily thrown together, as if the crew all of a sudden remembered they had a deadline to meet and could no longer continue the plot in the previous fashion. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Some users have compared it to the Matrix. Grade: C- John Mudoch Rufus Sewell awakes in a bathtub completely naked, with blood dripping down his forehead, unaware of what is happening, he remembers nothing.
No, I'm afraid the majority is out to sea with this one. . From start to finish, an instant classic that will surely gain cult status as the years progress. It's especially quiet at midnight, hehehehe. You will most likely watch this over and over again to figure everything out. The visuals in this movie were absolutely stunning.
And The Matrix filled that void. Keither Sutherland, in a pretty uncomfortable role as a scared, weak doctor does it surprisingly good. But due to its messed up or near-absent marketing campaign positioning the film to resemble a horror film for the teenage crowd , the film did not find its intended audience and flopped unceremoniously. I couldn't imagine a more strange and frightening experience. Watch for the Strangers' clock, views of the city and John's memories. The story is so fantastic and Proyas' nightmare world come true in that movie. Dark City 1998 Subtitles John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders.
The acting is top-of-the-line, with Sewell in the lead part. The story is the best. I will be part of the rabid throngs of people lining up to catch a spectacle as huge as Reloaded and Revolution. Don't forget Jennifer Connellywho plays the role with great expertise. I ain't gonna bother raising my doubts because there are far too many of them and none of them can be answered satisfactorily even after accounting for cinematic liberty. Despite and maybe because of Matrix sky high hype right now, my thoughts drift back to this overlooked classic. What follows is john trying to piece together what is happening to him and what he unravels is one of the greatest science fiction stories ever put to film.
With an execution commercial enough to bring in the box office moola and a philosophical subtext accessible enough for the general public to latch on to, the rest, as they say. At no point could I convince myself that what was playing on the screen was even remotely feasible. Despite and maybe because of Matrix sky high hype right now, my thoughts drift back to this overlooked classic. I hope these won't be the last of a dare I say it? The story doesn't follow a certain order of rule, instead there is some mind games and puzzles in the film, that causes watchers to be active in each minute and motivate to the movie. Ambitious sci-fi noir, with rich production design and a dense, Kafkaesque concept. Dark City was thus a near religious, life cleansing experience for me. This man Rufus Sewell finally confronts these men in a battle for the city.