Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson, William Hurt, Colin Friels, Frank Gallacher, Bruce Spence, Ritchie Singer, Nicholas Bell, Melissa George, David Wenham, Jeanette Cronin, David Wenham, Terry Bader, John Bluthall, Natalie Bollard, Mitchell Butel, Peter Callan, Alan Cinis, Cinzia Coassin, Darren Gilshenan, Edward Grant, Satya Gumbert, Mark Hedges, Bill Highfield, Marques Johnson, Timothy Jones, Laura Keneally, Anthony Kierann, Michael Lake, Paul Livingston, Tyson McCarthy, Marin Mimica, Frederick Miragliotta, Justin Monjo, Tony Mosley, Maureen O'Shaughnessy, Dhobi Oparei, Eliot Paton, Glenford Richards, Ray Rizzo, Bill Rutherford, Doug Scroope, Peter Sommerfeld, Stanley Steer, Luke Styles, Greg Tell, Rosemary Traynor, William Upjohn, Naomi Van Der Velden

Director: Alex Proyas

Summary: John Murdoch awakens to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. He has no memories and his beautiful wife has gone..

Upon awakening with a start in an icy bathtub in a strange room--with a woman's dead body inconveniently nearby--John Murdoch can't remember how he got there. With a police detective hot on his trail and a psychiatrist skulking around, Murdoch discovers that the key to his mystery is the presence of strange extraterrestrial creatures, the Strangers, who are experimenting with the memories of the humans in his city--from which there may be no escape. Ambitious sci-fi noir, with rich production design and a dense, Kafkaesque concept.

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If you're a fan of brooding comic-book anti-heroes, got a nihilistic jolt from The Crow(1994) and share director Alex Proyas's highly developed preoccupation for style over substance, you might be tempted to call Dark Cityan instant classic of visual imagination. It's one of those films that exists in a world purely of its own making, setting its own rules and playing by them fairly, so that even its derivative elements (and there are quite a few) acquire their own specific uniqueness. Before long, however, the film becomes interesting only as a triumph of production design. And while that's certainly enough to grab your attention (Blade Runneris considered a classic, after all), it's painfully clear that Dark Cityhas precious little heart and soul. One-dimensional characters are no match for the film's abundance of retro-futuristic style, so it's best to admire the latter on its own splendidly cinematic terms. Trivia buffs will be interested to know that the film's 50-plussets (partially inspired by German expressionism) were built at the Fox Film Studios in Sydney, Australia, home base of director Alex Proyas and producer Andrew Mason. The underground world depicted in the film required the largest indoor set ever built in Australia. --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	The Making Of Featurette, Trailer
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1998
Release Date:	July 26, 1999
Runtime:	96 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	E D V 9005
Keywords:	City, Dark, General, Wide, Screen, Thriller
Genre:	Thriller