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Dark City (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

Dark City (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

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Director: Alex Proyas
Actors: Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 557 reviews
Sales Rank: 173

Format: Color, Director's Cut, Widescreen, Subtitled
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5

MPN: TRNBRN40376
UPC: 794043122927
EAN: 0794043122927
ASIN: B0018O4YSQ

Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 07/29/2008 Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R

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If you're a fan of brooding comic-book antiheroes, 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 City an 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 Runner is considered a classic, after all), it's painfully clear that Dark City has 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-plus sets (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

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4 out of 5 stars Blu-Ray Technical Specs   July 21, 2010
Andrew J. Beauto (Tucson, AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Dark City (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]

Feature film Blu-Ray technical specifications:

Video: 1080p, 2.35:1
Audio: English dts-HD Master Audio 7.1

I'm hopeful that Amazon's technical specifications listings will become more useful.



2 out of 5 stars Sound is messed up   July 14, 2010
Rickey M. Horwitz
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Ok, I have an excellent system, new Sony Blu Ray, Onkyo amplifier and a Vizio TV. However, when playing this disc the audio has this unbearable noise that makes it impossible to enjoy. Plot?? who cares, I can't hear it.


5 out of 5 stars Awesome   July 10, 2010
Daniel Miller (Webster Springs, WV USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is one of the best movies I have seen in awhile. The story not be that fast paced, but if that's all your into, learn something. This is GREAT....BUY BUY BUY!!!!


2 out of 5 stars Slow and boring   July 9, 2010
David Q. Trinh (CA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I love science fiction, but not this movie. The first few minutes are great. A man wakes up without a memory. He is confused and scared. Then everything just becomes a painful, slow bore. The beautiful and talented Jennifer Connelly is wasted in this atrocious movie. Sleep. You can go to sleep. Sleep I did.


5 out of 5 stars A sense of palpable loss in a beautiful gem   July 3, 2010
Grey
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

One of the greatest strengths of Dark City is the slow unfolding sense of mystery which exists for the opening few acts of the film. John, the frightened hero, awakes in a bathtub with a hole in his head and no sense of how he got there. He runs, before receiving a call from a man claiming to be a doctor, played in a very odd, plodding way by Keifer Sutherland at the height of his powers. John does not continue the conversation more than a few seconds, running into the night pursued by men in dark coats. The film then cuts to William Hurt, a powerfully talented investigator played in a serious and brooding way, who has been summoned to where John has run from to examine the body he unwittingly left behind, a body with circles cut into it. Then we move to Jennifer Connelly's character, John's wife who hasn't seen him in three weeks.

But in a city this literally dark, nothing is as it seems and John is quickly caught up in a three way battle between Keifer Sutherland, a man who is allied with the men in coats somehow and the police, led by William Hurt with the help of John's wife. But the problem is not John's identity, it is the nature of the city itself, and the strange things that happen at midnight. I won't spoil any further.

Alex Proyas, a cult icon, directs the film with all the resources at his disposal when the film was produced in 1998, and the elements of solid production design remain. Buildings shift, time change and the viewer begins to question what the strange beings behind the city's movements question, "what is the nature of the human soul?" I can't escape that the characters are somewhat one-dimensional and the script is lacking. What is not lacking is imagination, which makes Dark City a stroke of genius.

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