i have read review of dark city in many place ( and many of them here ) hail it a a modern science fiction masterpiece and so boy be i disappointed when i watch it and come to the sober conclusion that it just not very good . yeah and yeah and yeah the visuals be stun and blah and blah and blah and but a be proved time and again and visuals alone can not make a movie . at least this have an interesting story and but a befalls so many film in this mind bend sci fi genre ( and the matrix suffers from this as well and though it a far good movie ) and the writer have set up such a cerebral concept that the movie grind to a halt when it have to trudge through all the exposition just so that the audience can keep track of what go on . though that in itself be never very clear in dark city . this movie just rush from one scene to the next and in an attempt to create a breathless and excite tone i guess and but scene aren not allow to play themselves out . be on to the next set piece before we have have time to absorb the one we just saw and and the character get bury underneath all the furious editing . however and i do not believe there would be much chance for them anyway and since most of the actor aren not very good either . rufus sewell and william hurt do o. k. but jennifer connelly phone in a wan performance and kiefer sutherland be barely watchable in a lamentable impersonation of the creepy nazi chase indiana jones in raider of the lose ark . his line delivery be so eccentric and monotonous that i be cringe every time he open his mouth by the film end . no and i be afraid the majority be out to sea with this one . this film and masterpiece do not belong in the same sentence . grade represent c .