I've had this movie in my collection for years, but had never pulled it out to watch. I had heard so much about it since then, all good things, but had also heard it was a bit taxing on the cranium. Not that I had any reason to wait, but it was totally worth it.
Dark City is exactly what its name implies: it's dark. I would call it something of a retro sci-fi neo-noir horror movie, and it's night all the time. Literally. Our protagonist, one John Murdoch, abruptly wakes up in a hotel bathtub at midnight with a broken syringe on the floor and no conception of how he got there. He soon discovers he's being sought out by a detective on a murder investigation, a wife he can't remember, a probably-not-licensed-in-anything-legitimate doctor, and the large group of goblinesque "strangers" that run this particularly strange city. It's the kind of movie I love: at first it makes as much sense to us as the brain-scrambled Murdoch, and we discover along with him, one step at a time, what the hell is going on. If you haven't seen it, make a point to do so.
-Dan
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