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The critically-acclaimed triumph from visionary director Alex Proyas (I, Robot, The Crow) is back with a brand new directors cut featuring enhanced picture and sound, never-before-seen footage and three commentary tracks that take you deeper than ever before into the world of one of sci-fis most exciting and revered tales. When John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes with no memory at the scene of a grisly murder, he soon finds himself hunted by the police, a woman claiming to be his wife and a mysterious group of pale men who seem to control everything and everyone in the city. Starring Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist), Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind), William Hurt (A History of Violence) and Kiefer Sutherland (TVs 24).
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By Keith Mirenberg (www.spaceanimations.org)
I saw Dark City when it first came out in 1998 and believe it is a five star sci-fi thriller. Dark and colorful, it is another story of circumstances totally out of control masquerading as possible paranoid delusion. The ending reminded me of the Matrix, but it was very interestingly done.
It appears that the overused theme of an individual (or individuals) suffering from paranoia underwent an increase in usage in middle of the 90's in movies. Fortunately, it was pretty clear almost from the outset of the movie that this was not the case. The atmosphere of the film was dark, brooding and always troubling, until its Matrix like ending. John Murdoch is "the one"!
This film had absolutely terrific special effects, and featured some good performances of an interesting theme.
By Christopher Koh (Puchong, Selangor Malaysia)
One of my first purchase of Blu Ray.
It's great to have both versions of the movie on 1 disc while I am not sure I'd recommend "The Director's Cut" to those first watching the movie. Feedback from friends whom I aired my Blu Ray version of this movie to was that the theatrical release seemed easier to comprehend with the narration. Director's seemed shorter... well, I guess it would be. I won't go into the story as most of you would probably already know.. as for those who don't others have more or less shared.
My take on Picture Quality would be fantastic! Audio is great!
Would I recommend that you get it? Absolutely... for the story and it's quality on Blu Ray.
By Cosmoetica (New York, USA)
Dark City is a film that will only grow with time, for not only is it a bottleneck work of art, but it's a transcendent film. Like 2001: A Space Odyssey, it transcends the limits of sci fi. Similarly, claims that the film is Gothic, noir, Expressionist, etc. are similarly shortsighted, as well are those which liken the film's narrative to Kafka or Orwell. The clear progenitor of this film is in fact Rod Serling, creator of the television show The Twilight Zone. But the film makes use of imagery from sources few have ever noticed- from campy predecessors in science fiction- the scene of Murdoch on The Strangers' wheel is highly derivative of the flying death scenes in Logan's Run, and the early scenes of The Strangers causing the city to sleep for a tuning, with cars in the middle of traffic jammed roads, is a steal straight from the opening scenes of Federico Fellini's 8½. This diversity, however, just proves a point I've long made, that greatness is a difference of kind not merely degree. Great films, and works of art, like Dark City, transcend their natal genres, and join a higher club, for they have more in common with the great films of other genres, than they do with lesser examples of their genre. And, the bottleneck status of Dark City also proves another point. German filmmaker Werner Herzog has long declared that our culture (cinematic or not) is currently starved for images, especially new images for a new age. I've never bought that, and a film like Dark City disproves Herzog's point. Images are always recycled, as are stories, and until mankind gets into outer space and experiences new things, now images are going to be relatively scarce. What I believe Herzog meant, however, was that the old images, stories, and ideas, need to be made re-new, and this is the essence of an artistic bottleneck- be it artwork or artist. The old is all filtered through that bottleneck and re-presented in new ways, mixed with new things, and, most of all, made better. As example, Shakespeare improved upon the dramatic archetypes of Greek tragedies, and the Modern Masters (Ibsen, Shaw, O'Neill) improved on Shakespeare's often one dimensional characters and fleshed them out, and set them in `real' situations, rather than the soap operatic melodramas Shakespeare could rarely transcend. It is quality, and quality alone, that is the important thing in any work of art, because that is a thing that is not ground to the subjective biases of individuals nor masses, not originality nor sentiment. And in these areas that define what makes a work of art work greatly, Alex Proyas's film Dark City transcends to that rarest circle, greatness, even as, within the limits of its genre it stands alone....nonpareil.
By T. Graham (Baltimore, MD)
This will not be a well thought out synopsis or an insightful investigation into the characters' arcs and motives, I will leave that in other capable hands. In short, this dedicated and eclectice sci fi enthusiast says this is one of the BEST movies of all time, and Keifer Sutherland steals the show.
By JBomb (Tallahassee, FL)
This has been a longtime favorite of mine. Worth re-watching for tone and atmosphere!
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