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plot : two teen couples go to a church party , drink and then drive .
they get into an accident .
one of the guys dies , but his girlfriend continues to see him in her life , and has nightmares .
what 's the deal ?
watch the movie and " sorta " find out . . .
critique : a mind - fuck movie for the teen generation that touches on a very cool idea , but presents it in a very bad package .
which is what makes this review an even harder one to write , since i generally applaud films which attempt to break the mold , mess with your head and such ( lost highway & memento ) , but there are good and bad ways of making all types of films , and these folks just did n't snag this one correctly
.
they seem to have taken this pretty neat concept , but executed it terribly .
so what are the problems with the movie ?
well , its main problem is that it 's simply too jumbled
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it starts off " normal " but then downshifts into this " fantasy " world in which you , as an audience member ,
have no idea what 's going on
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there are dreams , there are characters coming back from the dead , there are others who look like the dead , there are strange apparitions , there are disappearances , there are a looooot of chase scenes , there are tons of weird things that happen , and most of it is simply not explained .
now i personally do n't mind trying to unravel a film every now and then , but when all it does is give me the same clue over and over again , i get kind of fed up after a while , which is this film 's biggest problem .
it 's obviously got this big secret to hide , but it seems to want to hide it completely until its final five minutes .
and do they make things entertaining , thrilling or even engaging , in the meantime ?
not really .
the sad part is that the arrow and i both dig on flicks like this , so we actually figured most of it out by the half - way point , so all of the strangeness after that did start to make a little bit of sense , but it still did n't the make the film all that more entertaining .
i guess the bottom line with movies like this is that you should always make sure that the audience is " into it " even before they are given the secret password to enter your world of understanding .
i mean , showing melissa sagemiller running away from visions for about 20 minutes throughout the movie is just plain lazy ! !
okay , we get it .
. .
there are people chasing her and we do n't know who they are .
do we really need to see it over and over again ?
how about giving us different scenes offering further insight into all of the strangeness going down in the movie ?
apparently , the studio took this film away from its director and chopped it up themselves , and it shows .
there might 've been a pretty decent teen mind - fuck movie in here somewhere , but i guess " the suits " decided that turning it into a music video with little edge , would make more sense .
the actors are pretty good for the most part , although wes bentley just seemed to be playing the exact same character that he did in american beauty , only in a new neighborhood .
but my biggest kudos go out to sagemiller , who holds her own throughout the entire film , and actually has you feeling her character 's unraveling .
overall , the film does n't stick
because it does n't entertain , it 's confusing , it rarely excites and
it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime , despite a pretty cool ending and explanation to all of the craziness that came before it .
oh ,
and by the way , this is not a horror or teen slasher flick . . .
it 's just packaged to look that way because someone is apparently assuming that the genre is still hot with the kids .
it also wrapped production two years ago and has been sitting on the shelves ever since .
whatever . .
. skip it !
where 's joblo coming from ?
a nightmare of elm street 3 ( 7/10 ) - blair witch 2 ( 7/10 ) - the crow ( 9/10 ) - the crow : salvation ( 4/10 )
- lost highway ( 10/10 ) - memento ( 10/10 ) - the others ( 9/10 ) - stir of echoes ( 8/10 )
Solution: N
Why? The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

New input: seen may 31 , 1999 on home video ( rented ) .
one of the best things about the movies is that they can make you really start to wonder and analyze things in your own , everyday life that you might not have thought much of otherwise .
with some films it might be just a secondary issue , but with ' dark city ' what we get is nearly an entire film committed to philosophizing and theorizing about human memory and how it defines who we are , which is a poignant theme made through an absolutely beautifully - constructed film with the kind of story and setting that could only happen in a movie .
there 's an old role - playing computer game called ' d ?
ja v ? '
wherein the player takes on the role of a man who ca n't remember who he is , where he is and how he got there .
the goal is to gather as many clues as possible to figure that out and along the way overcome a conflict .
the premise to this film is not unlike that game , only this time we do n't have control over the protagonist .
we begin by meeting a seemingly ordinary man living in an extremely dark and dirty city ( actually , it 's more than just the city
, it 's the whole reality ) that is n't just that neo - gothic look ( a la ' batman , ' ' blade runner , ' ) , but is so fully developed
it 's almost a different genre completely .
later he will learn that his name is john murdoch ( sewell ) , but for now he has no idea what 's going on other than the fact something is not right .
the fact there 's a dead body in the corner goes to enhance the feeling of paranoia and a mysterious , hurried call telling him to leave immediately is also very chilling .
this opening scene alone goes a long way to define the setting of the film and its bizarre , horrific tone .
the man does n't know who he is nor where he 's going
and it 's interesting to follow him since we the viewers have no idea either we can sympathize and identify with him .
in fact , this is the way all stories begin since it 's impossible to know the history of a character , their feelings , values , morals , etc .
until after we 've observed them for a while .
but in this case , the total feeling of amnesia is an excellent tool towards characterization , developing the mood and outlining the story .
eventually , some semblance of a plot begins to unfold as it appears that john is a serial killer wanted by the police .
we met inspector frank bumstead ( hurt ) , a quiet , unemotional , soft - spoken deadpan man who appears to have been on the trail of the killer for some time .
two other important characters are also introduced : dr .
daniel p .
schreber ( sutherland ) , a neurotic psychiatrist who claims to be john 's doctor ; and emma murdoch ( connelly ) , a jazz singer dolled up to look like a caraciture right out of the old dick tracy serials or any given leading lady of the old film - noir movies .
it was schreber who contacted john for reasons that are continually revealed throughout the course of the film .
he also contacts emma , which further helps the film reveal what is seemingly a complex , mysterious back story .
but absolutely nothing is as it appears to be in ' dark city , '
which is what makes it so fascinating throughout its continual scenes of confusion and vertigo .
everything the filmmakers want us to see has some significance - considering how intricate the detail is to every single shot , its lighting , art direction and overall production design , they do n't seem to be able to afford any gratuities .
however , that might also be what 's keeping it from reaching its maximum potential .
by continuing to follow john as he wanders around this strange place , so much unlike the real world we know , we come to realize that it 's all a hoax .
everyone in the city is the subject of an experiment being conducted by a race of aliens to understand what makes humans tick in their efforts to somehow save themselves from extinction .
but , as the film 's tagline says , ' last night , one of us went off . '
for reasons that are never clearly explained , it appears that john possesses telekinetic powers to can do pretty much whatever his mind can conceive ( a process known as ' tuning ' ) .
the aliens , which look like very old bald human men with pasty skin , also possess the power en masse and use it to change the city every night at midnight .
at the same time all the humans fall asleep and after the changes are made , they awake and either continue where they left off or begin a new life they have no idea they did not have until then .
this premise certainly is interesting and director and co - screenwriter alex proyas is able to keep the film consistently mysterious in this regard .
he does provide some explanations such as that
dr .
schreber is an assistant to ' the strangers ' because he somehow could synthesize memory into chemical form .
the aliens mix and match the memories of the city 's population to see who will change and who will not .
in the process this creates for a good deal of deep , thought - provoking philosophies that could be applied to the real world .
however , where the film errs is by not playing up the idea of memory versus the human heart as to what makes a person who he or she is .
the main characters are all closely intertwined within the seemingly complex murder mystery which never actually happened , yet when they start to go through some of the expected emotions it comes off as distant , static and cold ( mediocre performances by hurt and connelly do n't help either ) .
for example , john realizes emma is not and probably never was his wife so he does not feel an emotional bond to her , yet in some scenes crucial to the film 's plot , we are expected to believe they do have a genuine love for each other , which is also part of the film 's climax and ending .
and that 's what proyas seems to be inferring with the film , but never quite manages to convey in its fullest sense .
ironically , this is what made his first film ' the crow ' work so well , which had a similar theme of struggling to find hope and the human spirit within a nearly identical , dark twisted world . with ' dark city ' the messenger seems to be mistaken for the message .
still , the film is by no means bad and is consistently entertaining and enjoyable .
there 's a lot to like here , most notably the sheer visual look and style of it all which accounts for at least half the reasons the film is able to tell the story it does .
the story as a whole is one of the most original to come out of hollywood in years .
' dark city ' is what the movies are all about - the escape from the real world .
Solution:
P