dark city

Dark city is truly a cult classic. The premise of the story is shrouded in complete mystery which is how it starts and how how we come to meet the famed Mr. John Murdoc. This opening is nothing new to the science fiction world. Where we are introduced to a character who struggles to regain their memories after waking up with amnesia. Which of course makes up for an interesting story. What's nice about this set up is that that character wakes up at the scene of a gruesome murder naked in a bathtub with nothing but questions and a telephone call from an anonymous man tell Mr. Murdoc he needs to flee because the cops would be at the scene in a matter of moments. The character goes on a horrible race against time to discover the truth along with his memories. The main character becomes obsessed with shell beach a place he remembers growing up in but cant remember how to get there and for some reason no one else does for some reason. Now being pursued by more people than just the cops our faithful hero is running out of places to hide and people to trust which would be the case in that situation. But in all unlikeliness a cop comes to his aid and together they discover the truth which is really shocking that a bunch of humans had been taken by these aliens to a secret place to be studied like rats in order to understand the human soul so the aliens could survive. But there is a turn of events Mr. Murdoc can some how que like them thus altering everything. I would have to say the movie should have gotten more recognition that it did. It is a great film. I would recommend it to anyone.