Metropolis

Name: Metropolis
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Released: January 25, 2002
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Toshio Furukawa

2002

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Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | Release Date: January 25, 2002 | TV-14

Starring: Toshio Furukawa

Summary: This Japanese anime, set in the future, depicts a grand city-state populated by humans and robots, the cohabitants of a strictly segmented society. (Sony)

Director: Rintaro

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Animation

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 108 min

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Roger Ebert

A wild elaboration. If you have never seen a Japanese anime, start here. If you love them, Metropolis proves you are right. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

The story is compelling, but Metropolis is such a visual masterpiece, it's easy to get lost within its seemingly endless layers of graphic complexity. Read full review

Jonathan Perry

Poetic, surreal, and curiously powerful.

Tasha Robinson

Technologically, the film is impressive, and it readily overwhelms the senses with frenetic computer-generated activity, an apocalyptic grand finale, and a bombastic jazz score. But unlike its classic predecessor, it doesn't leave much in its wake but ringing ears and unanswered questions. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Superior animated film from Japan. Read full review

Dana Stevens

A hallucinatory tour de force of color, perspective and scale, virtually encapsulates the history of Japanese animation. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Metropolis is "A.I." without tears. Read full review

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DaCriticalTroll

Jul 23, 2021

One of the Most Underappreciated animated features and Secretly one of the Greatest films that are Ahead of its Time, Filled with Imagination and the Sense of Wonder, accompanied with the Great Music of the late classical jazz composer Toshiyuki Honda, and the Conveying Characters of theOne of the Most Underappreciated animated features and Secretly one of the Greatest films that are Ahead of its Time, Filled with Imagination and the Sense of Wonder, accompanied with the Great Music of the late classical jazz composer Toshiyuki Honda, and the Conveying Characters of the story delivering down-to-heart voice performances, every big frame of the cities and visuals are groundbreaking, and at the same time tries to capture the past, simply a blend of Past present, and the Future.

I had a real blast watching this film, just as amazing as Fritz Lang tried to capture accurately the future in 1920s.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

bobbsyw

Oct 15, 2012

One of the most beautiful and visually dazzling films that I've ever chanced across. The plot is OK, the Japanese acting sounded reasonable to my English ears, but it's the visuals that stick in the mind the most. Highly recommended.

3 of 3 users found this helpful30

Deanomite

Jan 25, 2020

i like Akira, this is by the same guy. Well done but looks very dated, like from 20 years earlier. Akira looks fresher and it was 15 years before this.

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gachiro

Jan 3, 2019

Metropolis es una oda al cine antiguo con un simbolismo con mucho que decir pero con un montaje que no presta la atención a los temas que busca tratar pero con un mimo audio visual de infarto y un arte con carácter único y muy personal pero con un tema que no llega a las expectativas de loMetropolis es una oda al cine antiguo con un simbolismo con mucho que decir pero con un montaje que no presta la atención a los temas que busca tratar pero con un mimo audio visual de infarto y un arte con carácter único y muy personal pero con un tema que no llega a las expectativas de lo que Rintaro,Metropolis y el gran artista Osamu Tezuka nos hacían pensar y siendo este la columna vertebral de una historia no es como si lo pudiese obviar y acabar con una buena nota… Expand

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