wake up to the nightmare of your life

Rating: 10/10 (12 April 2002)

What have we here? This film gives me the creeps. It's not a horror movie as such... it's more a police thriller, set up in a gothic, film-noir-very-moody-set-with-a-twist kind of flic. You know the genre. Alex Proyas is a great story teller because he doesn't tell you everything. It's like you're reading a book with a set of characters coming out of the darkest recesses of your imagination. You enter a nightmarish city where everybody is living a life that's not of their own.
A film that makes you wonder just how real is your "reality". A story about a place where there is no sun, no future, no hope and no escape... only ignorance keeps people alive. The kind of story you would get from The Matrix or They Live, only different. There's somebody out there, controlling your every waking (or sleeping) moment, telling you who you are and what's your life all about.
A group of whimful creatures known only as the Strangers are the "unknown gods" of mankind. But there's one man who will not play by their rules.