Review of Dark City (1950) by Kevin D — 21 Jan 2019

I cannot even believe they got the green light to make this. I kept wondering if it was originally a graphic novel, and the answer turns out to be NO. And no wonderï¿ 1/2"there is nothing in it that makes full sense, even with The Big (mini) Reveal at the end. Characters change, the storyline keeps leaping from here to thereï¿ 1/2"inexplicablyï¿ 1/2"and by the end its all supposed to be explained away with the reveal. By the end I still didn't understand half of it, but, it definitely had style and attitude.

So lets just say Dark City succeeds by being a series of set pieces that allow the filmmaker to do whatever, conjure up whatever, and explain it away in a very meek "Final Battle and Reveal".

I felt a sense of dread throughout the whole thing, and by the end I was like oh ghod its finally wrapped up. And not very satisfyingly.