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Dark City

Movie
1998
1h 40m
R
English
Mystery, Science Fiction
User Score: 
7.7
Critic Score: 
71
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A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Dark City Poster

Dark City

R
Movie
1998
1h 40m
English
Mystery, Science Fiction
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Rating
WATCHMODE
7.7
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Dark City (1998) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
71

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Rufus Sewell
John Murdoch
William Hurt
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Kiefer Sutherland
Dr. Daniel P. Schreber
Jennifer Connelly
Emma Murdoch
Bruce Spence
Mr. Wall
Colin Friels
Det. Eddie Walenski
John Bluthal
Karl Harris
Mitchell Butel
Officer Husselbeck
Frank Gallacher
Chief Inspector Stromboli
Ritchie Singer
Hotel Manager / Vendor
Justin Monjo
Taxi Driver
Satya Gumbert
Mr. Sleep
Noah Gumbert
Mr. Sleep Filming Double
David Wenham
Schreber's Assistant
Paul Livingston
Assistant Stranger
Michael Lake
Assistant Stranger
Directed By: Alex Proyas
Written By: David S. Goyer (Screenplay), Alex Proyas (Screenplay), + 2 more

Featured Comments/Tips

mario94606 says...
9 years ago
please watch the directors cut
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davidru85 says...
13 years ago
This movie + "The thirteen floor" + machine war (Terminator) = The Matrix
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DRNKMNKY says...
9 years ago
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An alien race has abducted a city of humans and is performing experiments on them to try to find out the nature of the human soul. A good movie, often compared to The Matrix movies, which I still prefer (at least the first part) over Dark City!
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gumorsol says...
11 years ago
After all the Wachowski brothers are not so clever...
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Featured User Reviews

AndrewBloom
CONTAINS SPOILERS7/10  5 years ago
*Note: This review pertains to the Director’s Cut*

[7.0/10] I don’t know what it is about the nineties that gave us this type of film. Whether it’s *Dark City*, or *City of Lost Children*, or even *The Matrix*, it seems like that decade provided unique opportunities for reality-challenging, More
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drqshadow
8/10  4 years ago
Alex Proyas, director of 1994's similarly moody action gloomer _The Crow_, brings us this bleak vision of stifling, gothic noir in a bottled city that's never seen the sun. Super stylish and visually ambitious, it's a film with a boatload of high-concept revelations and almost no sense of chill. Eve More
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Sólstafir
8/10  4 years ago
Did you enjoy The Matrix? What if I tell you there was another movie which came right about the same time, and it tackles similar themes altogether differently? If that rouses your curiosity then Dark City is for you.

A man wakes up without knowing his past and does not understand the time and pl More
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Wuchak
2 years ago
**_Atmospheric, dark mixture of film noir, comic book horror and sci-fi_**

A man (Rufus Sewell) wakes up one night to great mysteries: There's a dead prostitute nearby that he gets blamed for murdering, but he can't remember much of anything. Several people seek him in the ensuing night hours of More
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