In this film, John Murdoch finds himself alone in a strange hotel to find that he is accused in a series of brutal murders. It seems that this puzzle will be very strange, as Gom tries to uncover the twisted puzzle of his identity, and struggles with memories of his past for it. Now, John must try to remember the wife he can't remember, in a dangerous nightmare world.
Dark City trades in such weighty themes as memory, thought control, human will and the altering of reality, but is engaging mostly in the degree to which it creates and sustains a visually startling alternate universe.
Proyas floods the screen with cinematic and literary references ranging from Murnau and Lang to Kafka and Orwell, creating a unique yet utterly convincing world.