A Detective Story is a rip off

Director Alex Proyas first wrote the story of Dark City in 1990 as a detective story. The protagonist was a detective investigating a case that did not make logical sense, driving him insane as the evidence pointed to a larger, incomprehensible scheme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_(1998_film)#Writing

I saw this movie Dark city (made one year before The Matrix) again a few days ago and it was like watching the Matrix, John Murdoch was Neo, a live that was made up and can be changed whenever the aliens wanted too, even whipe out memory just like in the Matrix, a living place that is not 'real' and made by aliens that can change it just like in the Matrix, the long black coats, he even had a phone call where someone said they where coming for him so he must run, really even that scene was used.

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