Lovecraft and Pinhead in souped up spaceship with a Bladerunner on their tale.

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 1999)

Dark City is one of those movies where you see the trailer and think "great imagery, awesome sets, good actors, big budget...Mmmmmmm. There is no way it's going to live up to this (i.e. The Crow)". But it does. This is a movie with tremendous power. Power to make you think. An original script. In the same sort of chew your reality up and spit it on the floor genre as Lost Highway or more recently The Matrix. I can't say enough about the atmosphere and the way it all comes together. Costumes, sets, music, actors(I was suprised and delighted to see Richard O'Brien looking as gaunt and creepy as ever). This movie will silently go down in history as one of the best sci-fi horror experiences that can be had. I see a Bladerunner/THX1138 kinda status for it in the future. A lot of control issues. Almost a cross between William Burroughs and H.P. Lovecraft. The lovecraftian elements being those that deal with the fragility of our minds clinging to a reality that's only as real as we think it is. Or as they want us to think it is. I'm waiting on another version to come out on DVD or video. A director's cut or something. Because that ending seems a little too Hollywood for the rest of the movie.