Dark City - Platinum SeriesTrailer Dark City is a brilliant movie because it offers so much in the span of 90 minutes. I can't find anything wrong with this film at all. I was such a HUGE fan of the movie when it first came out and when I got my DVD copy shortly after it's release, I use to play this anywhere from 2-3 times a year. I watched this forwards and backwards and sideways. I couldn't enough of this one. But then as my DVD collection got out of control and I was buying more than I was actually watching,
Dark City just.....disappeared off my radar. So, it was a real joy to finally watch this one again after years of silence. It's been so long that while watching it tonight, it felt new again and I liked that it felt that way.
The movie clearly took a page out of
Metropolis in crafting it's look and design to create something totally unique and original unto itself. But enough about that. I wanna talk about how influential
Dark City has become on other films. There are a handful of movies that immediately come to mind, but the most obvious decedent was
The Matrix. There is no denying that
The Wachowski Brothers aping both style and content for their movie and to great affect. Also, you can't watch
Inception without seeing that the groundwork was established in
Dark City 12 years earlier. Even with all the movies this has spawned, sometimes I think that it doesn't get enough credit. I could ask 100 random people on the street and I bet you that 90 would say they have no idea what the movie is.
As for the rest of the film, it has amazing art direction. Just....WOW. Great script and the cast was damn near perfect with
Kiefer Sutherland, Rufus Sewell and
Jennifer Connelly. How long has it been since I've watched this? It was long enough that I had no idea that
Melissa George was in this. In the time I didn't watch the film, I watched
Alias and never made the connection between the two. I wouldn't change a thing about this movie at all. I definitely need to pick up the
Director's Cut DVD. It's a must. But I highly recommend
Buying that one or this one. Just a great f u c k i n g movie.