Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #627 in Movie
• Released on: 2008-06-18
• Running time: 101 minutes

Customer Reviews

Dark City
An excellent film, good picture and superb audio. I owned the dvd version and it simply doesn't compare. Great features and a great film. After watching it again, you get a sense that the Matrix films borrowed heavily from the film.

Even Better
The great vision of this movie is enhanced with the Blu-Ray format.This movie is made for High-Def and a big screen.

Director's Cut vs. Standard Edition
I believe Dark City to still be one of the greatest sci-fi movies around, and despite having seen it innumerable times, I still find new ideas and concepts emerging from the rich material. Like many people, I've owned the standard edition for years, but felt compelled to buy the Director's Cut when it was released.

Not only does the Director's Cut have added footage, but scenes are rearranged, extended, and subtly modified in terms of visuals, which have been retouched, and music. The opening narration has been removed, plot points are made clearer, and there is a little more depth to several characters. And yet, I can't completely recommend the DC. A lot of the scenes added feel unnecessary, and with the extended and added footage, the pace is more slack and the movie doesn't pack as much punch to me. For instance, the second song Jennifer Connelly sings was severely abridged in the original cut; here, the song is presented in full form, and while it's entertaining, it derails the movie for a couple of minutes.

The original DVD Dark City (New Line Platinum Series) was a flipper disc housed in a paperboard snapper case; the DC is in a standard Amaray plastic DVD case, is one-sided, and is housed in a paperboard sleeve with embossed lettering. In addition, it includes an insert that provides a code you can use to download a digital copy of the movie, although I'm not sure if the digital copy is the standard or DC edition.

This edition gets four stars because, while it's still a wonderful movie, I prefer the original cut, and with that cut going out of print, it should've been included with this cut on the DVD (maybe as a 2-disc edition). As a note, the Blu-Ray edition Dark City (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] contains both cuts.