my age represent 13john murdoch and play by rufus sewell and awakens in a bathtub in a hotel room and not remember anything about his past and discovering that he be want for a series of brutal murder . he receive a phone call from dr schreber and play by kiefer sutherland and who wish to help him and and leave the hotel . he begin to have memory of shell beach from a postcard in his suitcase . he have no idea what be go on in the dark city . the stranger be another specie who live under the ground and search for the human soul . the stranger have the ability to tune and to cloud people mind and make them sleep . john find that he be the only person who can resist this power and use it himself . every night the stranger put the whole town to sleep and imprint people with new memory and change the appearance of the city . detective bumstead and play by william hurt and be on the murder case and try to bring john in and but be then catch up in help john uncover the truth . this film be visually excellent and especially during the scene when the stranger be change the city . i look forward to future work by the director alex proyas and whose direct style be brilliant in this film . act performance be very good and and the film have an interesting and intriguing plot . the character be well think up and and you really care about them . the film be great from start to finish and but the film be best in the end and with a showdown between the main stranger and john . one of the best film of recent time and dark city deserves to be call the number 1 movie of 1998 by roger ebert . australian classification represent m 15 plus represent medium level violencerating represent 8 positive 0 .