^^will be checking out 'Dark City'... as for Equilibrium I loved the 'gun kata'.. but like you said it just wasn't solid, like a patchwork of dystopian cliches (yes those bloody bleak dystopian futurescapes again!)
Speaking of which I just bought and watched Jean Luc-Godard's sci-fi/noir 'Alphaville' on VHS as part of a personal campaign to embrace French cinema once and for all. 'Alpha 60' is the super-advanced computer that controls a giant city of French automatons where emotion is banned and logic is law. Going on the only other Godard film I've seen (Breathless) was good cause I loved this. Cheap and cheerful, everything you want from yer grainy arthouse fun-fest.
edit: the main protagonist is called Lemmy Caution. nuff sed