A wonderfully dark elaborate and original film

Rating: 8/10 (13 April 2005)

Dark City is, as it's title suggests, a wonderfully dark film. The plot line is refreshingly original and one equally as a magnificent as "The Matrix" If you enjoyed "Batman" or "The Matrix" series of films then you will simply love this movie.
A species of aliens kidnap humans and place them in an experimental world far from earth to unlock the secrets of the human soul for their own survival. Each human specimen is implanted with life long memories and go about daily life blissfully unaware that they are part of a sinister experiment.
Everday,at the stroke of midnight, each human strangely falls into a deep sleep and is then implanted with a new set of memories. A specimen might be a bank manager one day married with three kids with elaborate recollections of how he grew up, joined a bank and rose through the ranks to become manager, and the next day wake up to be a serial murderer who has memories of killing hundreds of people over several years.
John Murdoch (Played by the remarkably restrained Rufus Sewell) is one human specimen who doesn't go to sleep at midnight and begins to discover the truth of the alien race playing god with people's minds.
Its a wonderfully complex and intricate film with a very strong cast including the very underrated Ian Richardson as the head of the alien race, and the brilliantly menacing Richard O'Brien as his "right hand man" and William Hurt as a cop who also finds out the truth about the world in which he lives, and helps Murdoch's overthrow the strange alien beings.
A chilling and provocative film which deserves more credit than it got! Go watch it now!