"The only place home exists is in your head."

Rating: 8/10 (3 December 2016)

For me, the picture brought up memories of a favorite comic book character of the early Eighties by the name of Grimjack, who lived in a pan-dimensional city that featured shape-shifting doors and alleyways, in which humans and aliens existed amid a world of magic and technology. The laws of physics didn't always work as expected, and one had to remember how certain things behaved in different parts of the city in order to function properly.
This was a cool flick that kept you on your toes as to what was happening with the principal character, John Murdock (Rufus Sewell). With a memory completely erased by men-in-black vigilantes called The Strangers, Murdoch frantically attempts to regain his understanding of who he is, and why everyone falls asleep at midnight in a virtual reset of a programmed world. The reason he's being pursued by The Strangers has to do with his ability to 'tune', that is, he can make things happen by his will alone, a power he begins to grasp as the story moves along.
Visual comparisons to films like "Blade Runner" and "The Matrix" are inevitable; it's a dark film with oddly nourish sensibilities with the inclusion of characters like torch singer Emma Murdoch (Jennifer Connolly) and police inspector Bumstead (William Hurt). Keifer Sutherland portrays an enigmatic doctor who's programming allows Murdoch to defeat The Strangers. The picture should appeal to fans of sci-fi thrillers who crave a bit of a mind bender.