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.
Proyas floods the screen with cinematic and literary references ranging from Murnau and Lang to Kafka and Orwell, creating a unique yet utterly convincing world.
– Andrea C. Basora,
Newsweek,
28 Apr 2008
fresh:
[A] stylish hybrid of futuristic thriller and film noir.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
28 Apr 2008
rotten:
City ultimately plays like one of those art-deco dystopian CD-ROM adventures of recent years.
– Ty Burr,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Apr 2008
fresh:
Dark City trades in such weighty themes as memory, thought control, human will and the altering of reality, but is engaging mostly in the degree to which it creates and sustains a visually startling alternate universe.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
28 Apr 2008
rotten:
A mishmash of iconography lifted from better movies.