Decent Sci-fi

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 2012)

Dark City is a stylish science fiction thriller starring Rufus Sewell as a man who wakes up in a hotel room, not knowing how he got there. A phone call from a Dr. Schreber(Kiefer Sutherland), urges him to leave as quickly as possible, before some bad men pick him up. He finds a dead woman in the room next to a bloody knife. He takes off just before the Strangers show up. These are his evil pursuers, dressed in long black coats and matching Fedora's.
Murdoch(Sewell) figures out his name and finds his wife, Emma. A cop, Frank Bumstead, is also looking for him to ask about a series of murders. He discovers some psychic abilities, which he uses to avoid the Strangers, while on the run. The city is in perpetual night, and the Strangers put all of the citizens into comas at midnight and alter their memories.
It turns out that the men in black are aliens who live in the underworld and need human beings to survive. The final third is a typical men from outer space battle with earthlings. Sewell and Sutherland are fine in their parts, but I wasn't impressed with the finale.