Dark City (1998)

Alex Proyas must surely be cursing slack-jawed teenage test-audiences the world over. For here he's created one of the most bewildering and amazing opening sequences ever filmed. But the shocking sense of being dropped into the deep end of a nightmare is completely negated by the inclusion of an opening, moron-proof (and probably studio-imposed) narration. It's like Basic Instinct starting with a banner that reads, "She IS the murderess". This is a world-first case where arriving at the cinema two or three minutes late would certainly be an advantage.

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