Dark City is a science fiction noir movie that fuses a detective story and an alien experiment. Directed by Alex Proyas (from The Crow, I, Robot and Knowing) and written by Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David Goyer it is a dark vision reminiscent of Blade Runner. The story is a psychological thriller that questions the nature of reality with a 1940 noir backdrop and an alien race orchestrating it all.