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It's good to see Alex Proyas's sorely under appreciated tour de force finally getting the treatment it deserves. The film has never looked better (on home video anyway) and the bonus features are, for the most part, satisfying. What's most interesting about this edition is that it includes the new director's cut, which does away with the studio-enforced voice-over at the beginning and extends some scenes.

I vividly remember seeing "Dark City" in the theater. It was one of those defining movie experiences for me. I walked into that theater one person and walked out another. And this was before I had seen any film noir, so "Dark City" was really my first encounter with the genre. And seeing it now, in glorious high-definition, I notice things I never saw before. I don't say this about many films, but I, along with Roger Ebert, consider "Dark City" to be a masterpiece. Check out Ebert's Great Movies essay here.