I dont think so, personally. I wouldve struggled to understand how the Strangers couldve kept their experiment going without detection if it were all happening under our noses on Earth.
shareIt's called Area 51. Okay that wouldn't work, but maybe they can actually create a new dimension within an area or something along those lines.
shareSounds like something out of an M. Night Shyteamalan movie.
shareNah, worse, this twist would be too much like a clone of The Truman Show.
shareWhat would have been cool maybe was if that was only half of the Twist.What if it was not only revealed that the entire Dark City was in a huge warehouse, but that it was Humans doing research on the Aliens!
It turned out that a bunch of humans volunteered to temporarily have their memory backed up and let these aliens use their unknown technology to find a cure for their (human fabricated) illness , thus letting human scientists learn about this hive-minded alien race and their tuning/ matter changing technology
The scene with the wall already reminded me a lot of the scene where the boat reaches the "horizon" in the Truman Show, where he basically finds an exit to the real world, so it was good that there was a different twist here. It's been done elsewhere too, e.g. M. Night Shyamalan's The Village
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Dark City came out before both of those movies.
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