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You’ll find all movie life in Dark City

“Dark City is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like Metropolis and 2001.” so wrote the esteemed critic roger ebert. gene siskel’s other half might have added that alex Proyas’s picture borrows extensively from Fritz lang’s urban nightmare while the look of the strangers is clearly influenced by Peter lorre’s pursuers in lang’s serial killer masterpiece M. in fact, watch Dark City closely and you’ll find references to Citizen Kane, Nosferatu, The Narrow Margin, Vertigo and John Boorman’s Zardoz. it all ought to reek of pastiche but as kiefer sutherland remarks, “there are lots of references but alex develops them in a highly original manner. it’s his movie, 100%.”