This is science fiction at its' best.

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2001)

This is science fiction at its' best and Alex Proyas' "Dark City" shows why. "Dark City" is the fantastic and memorable fable about John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), a man who remembers very little of his past, is targeted by the police for a series of brutal murders and he is also a target of the Strangers, in which a few members of the alien race that want Murdoch dead simply because he has their powers.
Besides the cast (Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Ian Richardson, Colin Friels, and Richard O'Brien) whose performances is definitely first-rate, Director Proyas and his screenwriters (Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer) create a marvelous story, but the stars of the film are the production designers (George Liddle, Patrick Tatopoulos), the composer (Trevor Jones), the photographer (Dariusz Wolski), and the head(s) of the art direction (Richard Hobbs, Michelle McGahney).