A pretty great fantasy (sci-fi?) noir style mystery. This one kind of feels like a group project David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, Vencenzo Natali, and Richard Kelly all had to make together, with the assignment being something like, "A man wakes up in a hotel bathtub, and follows a string of clues to discover his identity while being pursued by a shadowy enemy." This would be the result of that assignment. Except Alex Proyas made it. He did the great The Crow, waaaay back in the mid-90's, which actually makes sense since this movie has a very similar atmosphere happening, but then he also did that Nicholas Cage garbage, Knowing, and I, Robot, whose existence is about the only thing I have to remark on. It exists. It looks like a movie, it sounds like a movie. Meh.
But Dark City is pretty great; the cast is clearly enjoying their noir archetypes, the cinematography is pretty, and the reveal of what's going on at the end is a so far beyond believable or plausible that it becomes a "just go with it" kind of ending. I'm okay with that.
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