Tim Burton's Dark City

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I'm just provoking here I want your take please.

1.
It felt like I was watching Tim Burton's "The Matrix" when I saw Alex Proyas Dark City yesterday. Did anybody here get the same idea?

2.
I wonder if Alex Proyas has commented on the Wachowski Brother's
obvious rip-off:
http://galeon.hispavista.com/cineram...ixdarkcity.htm

Don't get me wrong, I love "The Matrix". Both fantastic movies in their own right (almost in their own right ).
In Dark City, Murdoch wakes up not knowing who he is, talks to Kiefer's character Schreber on the phone saying, he should escape, because "they are coming for him" (not exact quote).
Seconds later THREE "strangers" (agents) arrive from an elevator (also in the matrix) in long leather coats. The "strangers" have "tuning" abilities that can change the enviroment and also probably could stop bullets in mid air.
Later Murdoch (Neo) gets a card from his "wife" with Schrebers phonenumber(follow the white rabbit). I could go on.
There was just too many similarities, what's your thoughts?