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Dark City (1998): The Movie That Could Have Been 'The Matrix'

Dark City (1998): The Movie That Could Have Been 'The Matrix'

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Ben and Rob wake up in ‘Dark City’, the dark sci-fi fantasy from Alex Proyas, director of ‘The Crow’. Released a year before ‘The Matrix’, ‘Dark City’ tells the story of John Murdock (Rufus Sewell), a man who has lost his memory in a city that never sees the sun where memory and time itself are the playthings of a race of alien beings known only as The Strangers. ‘Dark City’ was a critical success but a complete box-office bomb, with Alex Proyas ultimately blaming a studio that didn’t support the film correctly.

But what on earth made ‘Dark City’ the cult classic sci-fi fantasy that film forgot, when it’s so nearly ‘The Matrix’? Why does the theatrical version spoil almost all of the movie in the opening seconds? Can Ben make peace with this plot!? And what’s Richard O Brien from Rocky Horror doing in here?

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