A Perfect 10 -- HARBINGER OF THE MATRIX - Here's a list...

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2014)

One of the greatest sci-fi flix ever made, can be watched and re-watched. Reasons in no special order: 1. Alex Proyas is a genius but an inconsistent one. Here he is in full flight, at the top of his game. 2. Sutherland is one of those actors that people are divided about -- take for example 24, some loved it, some did not. Here he is pitch perfect. 3. Any movie with Connelly is always worth checking out (whatta face! See also my review of ONCE UPON A TIME IN America where she has an almost un-biilled role and steals every scene she is in). 4. A year ahead of the Matrix, this movie is practically its harbinger. While (arguably) the Matrix is the more devastating story, DARK CITY does boast the added attraction of not having two horrific sequels produced simply to milk the original franchise. Seriously, if you have not seen it, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The constant theme about getting to the "beach" is a metaphor for every hope and dream each one of us has had that never worked out. The idea of changing roles but staying on the same city-set is a metaphor for reincarnation. The "tuning" (like in the Matrix) retrieves the age-old question of whether man is meant to dominate the physical world, or be dominated by it. There's more, but that's plenty for this review. One of the greatest films ever.