Dark City

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Watched With: Alex

Watching The Crow the other day gave me a hankering for this. Alex Proyas's follow up film keeps the dark tone and fantastic production design but replaces the revenge aesthetic with a noir with sci-fi elements. This also has a brilliant soundtrack by Trevor Jones.

I just love the way this story unfolds. But even having seen it many times and know the answers to all the mysteries it's still entertaining. Kiefer Sutherland's character is hilarious. Jennifer Connelly is gorgeous. William Hurt is great. Rufus Sewell has POWERS! Awesome. For the moment this is the closest we'll get to seeing what Akira mind battles will look like on the big screen.

I watched the theatrical cut again, apart from the voice over narration at the beginning there isn't too much difference. (Unlike that other sci-fi/noir Blade Runner) I used to watch this film all the time. It never made as big of a splash as something like The Matrix even though they share similar ideas. But there are seom really cool sequences in this. I love love love the whole opening scenes where you just have no idea what the hell is going on, even more so in the directors cut where you don't get any narration to set you up. The Strangers flying around the city with long coats and hats is just neat. And an action sequence over the rooftops of a city that moves and changes is great as well.

And as cool as all this sci-fi stuff is, the search for a man's identity and later the romance that develops out of this is what brings it all together in the end. It's a beautiful ending.

I just love this film so much. Awesome on bluray too. Glad they got the budget to fix it up and release it.