As the story opens, downtrodden workers are shuffling along like an army of zombie soldiers on parade with each head held down. They are the minions who toil at the machines, consisting of big levers, large dials and lots of steam. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at IMDB.com
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Restorationist Martin Koerber told the Village Voice, "What you've seen before of Metropolis is usually some kind of Frankenstein story. Nutty professor invents robot, robot wreaks havoc, and everything goes kaput. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at IMDB.com
Movies often are described with phrases such as "larger than life," which make no sense if you think about them, but effectively convey a sense of grandeur and epic scope that defy the vastly smaller dimensions of everyday life. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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"Metropolis" is a world in the far future (maybe 21st century) where the rich and elite live above ground, while the workers slave underneath the city with horrible conditions. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at IMDB.com
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"Metropolis" has been released under a number of video labels. Videos released by Third Coast and by Allied Artists are out of print, and the author would appreciate any information about these releases. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at IMDB.com
The writer Thea Von Harbou's sentences grace the screen like obligatory words of wisdom, emphasizing the fine line between two forces that hold the movie together. And what is said of the film's message also applies to the people who made it. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Cinemaphile.org (David Keyes)
Sometimes, when a film changes the face of filmmaking thenceforth, it becomes difficult to appreciate it in retrospect: later audiences, accustomed with movies that draw from the styles and techniques of such trendsetters, can't truly appreciate how ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at At-A-Glance Film Reviews (--)
Science fiction fans and cineastes in general have cause for great rejoicing now that a painstaking four-year effort by German film preservation specialist Martin Koerber and Alpha-Omega, a Munich firm specialising in digital restoration, makes it ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at VideoVista
For those who don't know, Metropolis is probably the first true science fiction feature film, and also the last gasp of the German Expressionist movement that dominated the early part of twentieth century film. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at PreViewed DVD
Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) ist Sohn des mächtigsten Bürgers der Oberschicht, John Fredersen (Alfred Abel). Freder trifft in einem Luxusgarten auf Maria (Brigitte Helm) der geistigen Führerin der unterdrückten Arbeiter der Unterschicht. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at allesfilm.com (Thomas Vesely)
* Note: for a far superior more complete version, watch the restored version by Kino International, which contains footage never seen before in theaters and added intertitles that fill in the gaps of the film stock that unfortunately is lost ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (John Nesbit)
Metaphilm
With our idleness and stupidity, the shallowness of our modern lives is on the top for everyone to see. Our predictability and forced repetition—in thought, in action, in our wants and needs beneath—continually rip our inner psyches apart. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Metaphilm
CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)
After 75 years of being shown in various truncated
versions, and in the process making an incalculable
impact on science fiction, and on popular culture in
general, Fritz Lang's Metropolis has finally been
released in a gorgeous new print, with ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at CineScene.com (Chris Dashiell)
It's amazing to think that everyone that took part in the creation of this epic is probably dead now. Metropolis was decades ahead of its time. Classy and original, it can stand up amongst the great films of all time. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Movie Gazette
CountingDown.com (Daniel Baig)
Possibly the most demonstrably, quantifiably influential film of all time influential in terms of its immense impact on the popular imagination of the twentieth century, including, but by no means limited to, succeeding decades (going all the way up to ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at CountingDown.com (Daniel Baig)
Fulvue Drive-in
So many films go around claiming to be important and great, but only a very small handful of films can ever truly claim that honor. Metropolis is one of the few films in history worthy of such note. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Fulvue Drive-in
Whether or not one agrees with its politics, the story expressed by Fritz Lang's timeless classic can not be faulted for its scope, which varies from the grandest visions of accomplishment to the sincerist truths of the human heart. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Cinescape
Plume Noire
With Metropolis, Fritz Lang delivered in 1926 one of the first blockbusters in the history of cinema. Contrary to the big budget productions of the time, his film was not lacking in a political and artistic dimension. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Plume Noire
The Digital Bits
"The Mediator between Head and Hands must be the Heart!"
Originally released in 1927, Metropolis tells the story of a utopian city of the future, designed and guided by the genius of its founder, Joh Fredersen. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at The Digital Bits
Sci-Fi Movie Page (James O'Ehley)
The legendary German expressionist director (who detested the Nazis) calmly listened to the proposal, said he would consider it and was on a plane to permanent exile in America by that evening! Sadly Lang's wife (who was more enamoured of the Nazis) ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Sci-Fi Movie Page (James O'Ehley)
Cinescape
It's appropriate that a film which puts technology up on such a high pedestal so high that later futurists simply couldn't escape its influence - should benefit so much from that technology. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Cinescape
The film they made in 1927 (von Harbou has screenplay credit, although Lang reportedly contributed) was a science fiction landmark, its extravagant imagery informing works as diverse as The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Dr. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Slate (David Edelstein)
One of the most ambitious movies of the silent era, Metropolis has often been called the first great science fiction film. The sets, cinematography, and special effects have influenced countless films, and are still very impressive today. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
The Movie Chicks
This is a restored version of the 1927 classic silent film with a re-recording of the original score (not the version that was released in 1984 with a modern soundtrack including songs by Queen and Bonnie Tyler). ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at The Movie Chicks
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
There are more versions of "Metropolis," Fritz Lang's great 1926 German expressionist-futurist masterpiece, than there are variations on a theme by Paganini. But this reconstruction by the Munich Film Archives is the definitive one. ...read the complete Metropolis movie review at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette