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

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

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The critically-acclaimed triumph from visionary director Alex Proyas (I, Robot, The Crow) is back with a brand new directors cut featuring enhanced picture and sound, never-before-seen footage and three commentary tracks that take you deeper than ever before into the world of one of sci-fis most exciting and revered tales. When John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes with no memory at the scene of a grisly murder, he soon finds himself hunted by the police, a woman claiming to be his wife and a mysterious group of pale men who seem to control everything and everyone in the city. Starring Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist), Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind), William Hurt (A History of Violence) and Kiefer Sutherland (TVs 24).

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Actors:	Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien
Director:	Alex Proyas
Format:	Color, Director's Cut, Widescreen, Subtitled
Language:	English
Subtitle:	English, Spanish
Number of Discs:	1
Studio:	New Line Home Video
Run Time:	100 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date:	July 29, 2008
Average Customer Rating:	based on 557 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 4.5

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Blu-Ray Technical Specs Jul 21, 2010
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

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Sound is messed up Jul 14, 2010
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.

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Awesome Jul 10, 2010
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!!!!

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Slow and boring Jul 09, 2010
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.

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A sense of palpable loss in a beautiful gem Jul 03, 2010
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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