Dark City was disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (14 July 2012)

To be honest, I feel bad not liking this movie because the design and filming was so amazingly beautiful. If I have one good thing to say about this film, then it's that. But, sadly, I did not enjoy this movie, which I have to say I was really looking forward to after hearing so much positiveness in regards to it. I think I just found it... annoying. There was something about the dialogue and the acting (neither of which were particularly bad) that just didn't gel properly. Keither Sutherland's speech patterns made me want to just pick up the nearest living organism and strangle it, and then strangle it some more. I also found the plot to be a bit clichéd - it read more like a '70s Doctor Who serial than anything Philip K. Dick would touch with a stick. I just didn't think the answers in it were as exciting as the questions were, which can never be good. But then again, Richard O'Brien was cool and the design was just magnificent, so I'm undecided.