Title: A Matrix before The Matrix
Product review: Seeing this masterful and imaginative dark odyssey on DVD has reminded me how completely the makers of THE MATRIX are indebted to Alex Proyas's earlier vision: in both films, the hero an unaware messiah figure who needs the help of outsiders to awaken him to his own true powers; the human race is held captive by hidden aliens who seek to control our very sense of reality; the telekinetic rebel is seeking a lost (perhaps imaginary) human paradise ("Zion" or "Shell Beach"), etc. etc. DARK CITY was there first, and the film is a small masterpiece of completely self-contained noir fantasy, brilliantly done.
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