Dark City

MOVIE #1,049 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.05.23 Having recently reviewed Knowing for my Nicolas Cage series, I was weary heading into this Alex Proyas joint. But I am pleased to report that this is totally worth a watch and earns its status as a cult classic. For a movie called Dark City, let this be a lesson for contemporary filmmakers in how to LIGHT a film, if nothing else. The plot is somewhat convoluted (but never that confusing). If you can hang tight through the opening act, which is just an onslaught of information, then you’ll be fine. Because it’s in that onslaught — some of the most creative and interesting visual storytelling I’ve come across — where the rewards lie.

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Dark City is a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas, and starring Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien and Ian Richardson. The screenplay was written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs, and David S. Goyer. In the film, Sewell plays an amnesiac man who, finding himself suspected of murder, attempts to discover his true identity and clear his name while on the run from the police and a mysterious group known as the "Strangers". It was released on February 27, 1998.