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Upon awakening with a start in an icy bathtub in a strange room--with a woman's dead body inconveniently nearby--John Murdoch can't remember how he got there. With a police detective hot on his trail and a psychiatrist skulking around, Murdoch discovers that the key to his mystery is the presence of strange extraterrestrial .. Read more
| Starring | Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien |
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| Director | Alex Proyas |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller |
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Upon awakening with a start in an icy bathtub in a strange room--with a woman's dead body inconveniently nearby--John Murdoch can't remember how he got there. With a police detective hot on his trail and a psychiatrist skulking around, Murdoch discovers that the key to his mystery is the presence of strange extraterrestrial creatures, the Strangers, who are experimenting with the memories of the humans in his city--from which there may be no escape. Ambitious sci-fi noir, with rich production design and a dense, Kafkaesque concept.
| Starring | Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson, William Hurt, Colin Friels, Frank Gallacher, Bruce Spence, Ritchie Singer, Nicholas Bell, Melissa George, David Wenham, Jeanette Cronin, Terr |
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| Director | Alex Proyas |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 36 mins |
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| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | Production year: 1998 To Rent: DVD: 26 Jul 1999 Blu-ray: 02 Nov 2009 |
Paranoid fantasy that owes its visual style to graphic novels such as The Crow, and its tone to film noir; its narrative, though, is more muddled and, ultimately, somewhat forgettable.
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Pre-Matrix revelations
The similarities between The Matrix and Dark City are strong. Both focus on brooding central characters somehow out of sync with the world around them and ... read more »
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Two Words : Absolutely Rubbish!!
My first impression is the scenery reminds me of certain scenes from the Matrix.
The main actor wakes up in what can only be described as the ... read more »
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Quirky but a little boring/long
It's different. But not that great. Sorry can't give a better review. Was a little bored from time to time, seemed to drag. Maybe that was because I was... read more »
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Dark, strange but great city
Very dark and very strange city!. Love the story and its great to see Keifer in a made scientist role. Very cleaver and thought provoking film which I onced ... read more »
A cut above the crud that Nic Cage has been perpetrating on a regular basis lately, Knowing is a strenuously doomy sci-fi thriller that takes itself more seriously than something like Next, despite certain similarities in the story department. Cage’s MIT professor John Koestler is intrigued, at first, then dismayed, when he examines the missive his son has brought home from school. It is a letter from half a century ago, when the pupils of a local school left their predictions about the... Read more