The Dark City

This movie must have been one of my favorite movies of all time. I was truly mindblown when i saw the view of the city from the outside. In the beggining of the movie, I thought that everything going on was ridiculous and even a little humorous. I think this was partially due to my expectation of this movie being like Asphalt Jungle and having a more serious and realistic aspect to it. I did not expect this to be a sort of science fiction because Mr. Bennet mentioned that this was an updated version of the genre of Asphalt Jungle. I am normaly a person that really does not really get blown away and amazed by special effects in a movie because I believe it takes away from the story of the movie, but this movie was truly something. Not only was the story line incredible, but mixed in with that shot of the city added a whole new dimension to the film. I did not really like the last battle scene in the film because it made it just like every other movie with the final battle scene - a great battle takes place and the "good" character wins. I thought that the originality of the film was the greatest thing about it and this scene took away from it in a sense. My favorite line in the movie was when Murdoch said, "You wanted to know what is is about us that makes us human, well your not going to find it in here" and then pointed to his head. It made me feel a whole lot better about myself because it just proves to show that we aren't just a collection of our memories, but our own character is based on what we are in our hearts.