Dark City

A noirish sci-fi mystery with a nice comic booky look. Keifer Sutherland plays an odd scientist who speaks with an inexplicable accent and halting way of talking. Except of course when he points a gun at somebody and says, I kid you not, "We're running out of time." Is this the genesis of Jack Bauer? Parts of the film look a lot like the earlier "The City of Lost Children," and a character even uses the phrase "lost children." If I had made that movie, I'd be upset.