December 19, 2009
There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
Alfred Abel,
Brigitte Helm,
Fritz Rasp,
Gustav Fröhlich,
Heinrich George
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Fritz Lang's Metropolis belongs to legend as much as to cinema. It's a milestone of sci-fi and German expressionism. Yet the story makes minimal sense, and the "theme" belongs in a fortune cookie; to ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 18, 2003
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Flixster Reviews (3,351)
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November 28, 2009''There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.''
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predic...( read more) -
July 3, 2009often considered cinema's first great masterpiece, its a shame that some of the scenes from this fritz lang classic are lost to us forever. i feel that the film only preserves so well despite its missing pieces because it is a silent film and can be filled in with text screens, ...( read more)
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June 28, 2009Kind of a like a Michael Bay blockbuster, except more technically impressive (for its time). The sets are the stars rather than the actors, which give some incredibly histronic performances even for a silent. No matter how much I was impressed by the visuals and the avant garde p...( read more)
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January 16, 2010the only thing this movie had going for it was the music. everything else was horrible.
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January 15, 2010Asombrosa! muy inventiva, es una pieza de cine absorvente, es un epico sci-fi, super futurista con toques de terror, pocas peliculas hablan tan poderosamente y elocuentemente, como Metropolis de 1927, hace pensar mas que la gran mayoria de peliculas de hoy en dia, es una delicia ...( read more)
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December 31, 2009El clasico del cine mudo, de la ciencia ficcion de la decada de los 20s. Dirigida por el aleman Fritz Lang. Nunca pasara de moda.
Critic Reviews
September 19, 2002
David Edelstein, Slate
September 5, 2002
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
The eye-popping design and sense of scale remains as fresh and vital as it was in 1927. full review
August 23, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks, and the color palette, with lots of somber blues and pinks, is dreamy and evocative. full review
July 12, 2002
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A hallucinatory tour de force of color, perspective and scale, virtually encapsulates the history of Japanese animation. full review
February 1, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Has an almost stupefyingly intense visual impact. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
One of the best animated films I have ever seen. full review
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July 17, 2008I have this movie on vhs and I've tried to watch it, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT....
I could barely get thru the first 5 minutes without wincing from the pain of not knowing WTF was going on... If there was something, like subtitles & maybe music to follow, then that might make it bearable. They need to re-release it appropriately, with music from Pink Floyd & Led Zeppelin, since it was first released as a silent movie, in nineteen twenty freaking seven!!! -
July 8, 2008http://www.moviemake-out.com/2008/07/04/original-1927-cut-of-metropolis-found/
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January 25, 2007A fantastic movie that felt very unusual to me when I first watched it. I have a 2 hour version, but there is text missing compared to the version the flixster's video clips come from. Some people may not understand Metropolis and what it is about, but many scenes have been cut out. The original was 3 hours, but the american experts cut it so only 1 hour remained. I have read somewhere that there was a character, named Hel, that was cut out because they did not like her name. She is the reason why the mad professor creates such a robot.
The movie is very, very well done as a movie during the 1920's. I will never forget it. The version I watched seemed older than the 'restored authorized edition', it was dark in the corners of the picture and brighter in the middle, and dust in the picture, but that made the movie even more special as I watched it. I feel like watching this movie again.
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