Alex Proyas Dark Visions.

Rating: 10/10 (15 May 2015)

Dark City (1998): Dir: Alex Proyes / Cast: Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien: Exquisite visual wonder ripe with intriguing imagery and brilliant storytelling. Title represents foundations of the mind as Kiefer Sutherland conducts an experiment to understand the human soul by impetrating a person's memory, which is injected into someone else and at midnight the city transforms. Rufuss Sewell awakens to discover that his wife cheated on him and he killed hookers. He searches for Shell Beach where his family died in a fire. Directed by Alex Proyas who previously applied his visual style to The Crow but this is a higher achievement. Rufus Sewell conveys the confusion of someone unaware of his present and past, and approaches his future with great uncertainty. Sutherland plays off the brains yet intimidated nature of the doctor who surrounds himself with water because the beings will not touch him. Jennifer Connelly plays Sewell's wife who helps him search for answers. William Hurt plays a cop on Sewell's trail but unable to explain the bizarre world around him. Richard O'Brien makes his latest appearance playing an ominous sinister character that he plays to a tee. The special effects are simply unique with invention at all corners of the screen. It is a inventive visual triumph about the dark corners of the mind. Score: 10 / 10