Metropolis Reviews and Ratings



  • September 27, 2007
    eh watched it in film history
  • September 23, 2007
    As far as I know, it's the first science fiction movie ever, and the first movie to feature a robot. I paid for a 9-movie DVD set just to get this. The music is pretty bad, and the first hour of it is just kind of meh, but things kick into high gear at the start of the second hou...( read more)r and it just doesn't slow down afterwards. Classic.
  • September 23, 2007
    such a good film! i am doing my year 12 history essay on it!
  • September 21, 2007
    This is an amazing feat even if it is one of the first ever real true classic greats of the film world. It's stood the test of time and it will clearly go on to be a consistent classic!!
  • September 19, 2007
    I have the figurine for it, so I have to see this flick.
  • September 15, 2007
    Weird nonsense, but it was one of the early films that pioneered all these great camera techniques.
  • September 15, 2007
    Silent movie, watched some on fast forward couldn't take the over exagerating acting.
  • September 14, 2007
    jaja, la mujer bionica, ok me gusto su personaje sycho, y ademas tiene muchos elementos que han sido copiados en peliculas recientes. classic story del amor "imposible"
  • September 12, 2007
    I liked this alot less that I thought I would. Yeah, it's influential. Whatever.
  • September 12, 2007
    Man, I kinda want to live at the Tower of Babel. Is that wrong?

    I love this movie. I don't just love it from an intellectual point of view, or from an art critic point of view. This is actually a very cool movie. This is the kind of sci-fi I really dig. It's got an insane...( read more) amount of themes in it, all woven in naturally v. forced to be topical. This film deals with man's conquest of technology, his reliance on that technology, the condition of the worker, the flaws of commerce and capitalism, man's natural need for violence, etc.

    What I'm also amazed is the scope of this movie. Admittedly, I've been watching a lot of Star Trek, but those special effects are fantastic. 1927, really? Damn. And to think of the crap I watch on YouTube...
  • September 8, 2007
    Amazing early sci-fi silent film.
  • September 4, 2007
    I saw some ads when I was a kid based on characters from this movie. Made me wanna see it.
  • August 31, 2007
    Metropolis is a cutting edge commentary on the implications of the Western world's foray into a technologically driven, capitalist society. Not only has Lang settled on pertinent themes and allegories, but he has also employed, what was for its time, envelope-pushing visuals. T...( read more)hough only 114 minutes of the original 210 survived the "media cleansing" efforts of Hitlers regime, Lang's message of the importance of unity among social classes stays in tact. The film's main character, Freder, son to the founder of Metropolis, resolves a crisis of conscience by submitting himself to the trying (and often robotic) life known only to the subterranean working class. He partners himself with the prophet of the working class, and the object of his affection, Maria, to help bring class equality to Metropolis. Ferder's father, Joh, attempts to stop, what he considers to be, the rebellion of the working class, by contracting an inventor to underscore the validity of Maria's influence over the workers. Creating a robot in Maria's likeness he incites general chaos above and below ground. The result is the violent destruction of not only the machines that sustain the city but also the peace given to the subjugated workers by the real Maria. Freder must save the worker's children, as well as the imprisoned Maria to fulfill his role as the mediator between the two classes. The plot is well braced by biblical allusions throughout. Maria, in her speeches to the working class, alludes to the similarities between Metropolis and the biblical Tower of Babel, which, sparing a thesis paper, is supported throughout the imagery and dialog of Metropolis. The book of Revelation is referred to several times as a sort of foreshadowing for the destruction that the robotic Maria will bring. References to Dante's Inferno are also made through the monstrous embodiment of the seven deadly sins, who wreak havoc on the young men of the upper city. The film also takes the, now familiar but then fledgling, conflict of Man vs. Machine. The film seems to resound with a sort of organic truth. That technology acts as a dissociative, tearing ones behavior away from that which achieves the most fulfilling life (in the case of the workers), and as it can falsely apply simplicity and rigidity to the human form robing it of it inherent, though complex, system of organic truth/purity. In addition to the aforementioned greatness, Metropolis, is further supported by a jaw dropping city-scape. New filming techniques were even developed in order to bring this late-expressionistic dream into reality. The only draw for this film is its ending. It over simplifies a film, that up until the close, was rife with thick character and thematic development, with obtuse cliche. Definitely worth a second and third look. (9 out of 10)
  • August 31, 2007
    i love that movie
    its love love and love it can
    hep u survive like a hard machine
  • August 30, 2007
    A classic of true Sci-Fi.
  • August 29, 2007
    It´s impressive until today. This movie will never get old. At let heart unit us all.
  • August 28, 2007
    Revolutionary and amazing movie from Fritz Lang.
  • August 27, 2007
    Classic tale about man and machine. The origin of futuristic landscapes and modern robotic entities. A masterpiece of technical achievements and western drama.
  • August 27, 2007
    Fritz Lang's epic adventure. the mother of all science fiction films.
  • August 25, 2007
    If I was alive in 1927 and I saw this film it could quite have been possibly I would have died seeing it's so revolutionary content. The birth of Sci-Fi began here, and was a grand entrance into the world of cinema.
  • August 23, 2007
    I must find this movie again and buy the DVD. This is one of the best movies you can see. Rent or buy it today. I am sorry I don't agree with the review here at all nor to the art theaters that play this classical sci fi film.
  • August 22, 2007
    Bow to the greater god of expresionist brilliance
  • August 20, 2007
    Science fiction's most influential picture, who inspired hundreds of movies even at our time, Metropolis is just GREAT!
  • August 18, 2007
    Incredible! A cast of thousands. The cityscapes are a real treat
  • August 18, 2007
    Some of the best camera and lighting I've seen in my life. Also, the whole film just is so brilliant, it can really work you up. The looks of the lead female actress when she is the robot is one of the most beautiful in terms of female expresiions.
  • August 16, 2007
    The grandfather of all science fiction film and the culmination of German Expressionism in cinema. This remarkable achievement is a visually stunning watershed that has been unfairly cast as cold and emotionless, when nothing could be further from the truth. One of my all-time f...( read more)avorites.
  • August 16, 2007
    A must-have for any film-noir fan.
  • August 15, 2007
    A brilliant film that has withstood the test of time. Even the special effects are good!
  • August 13, 2007
    wow!!!... increíble lo que hicieron hace 80 años... desde la manera en cómo nos presentan los créditos iniciales, hasta la bella banda sonora... lo mejor del siglo pasado sin duda...
  • August 11, 2007
    this may be my favorite s/f flic of all time. read the book and saw the film.hard to find but well worth the time. just think what fritz lang could have done with today's tech.
  • August 10, 2007
    O pesadelo sonhado.



    A história se passa no ano de 2026, exatamente um século depois do lançamento do filme, de 1926. O mundo de Metropolis, a futurística e aterradora cidade do título, é frio, mecânico e industrial. A descrição reflete o imaginário característico da época, qua...( read more)ndo a Revolução Industrial já atingira seu ápice e o sistema econômico de produção capitalista começava a dar sinais evidentes de desgaste, o que certamente levava a um certo pessimismo quanto ao futuro. e Fritz, traça um prognóstico nefasto do que aconteceria aos grandes centros urbanos caso o industrialismo seguisse um caminho desenfreado e inconseqüentemente manipulador, sobretudo, pelas máquinas.
    As máquinas... Elas ocupam um lugar de tamanha importância no funcionamento e sobrevivência de Metropolis, que poderiam mesmo ser classificadas como uma "terceira classe social" na estrutura da cidade. Na verdade, elas se tornam, num sentido, mais importantes até mesmo que os próprios trabalhadores humanos e se localizam num nível intermediário entre a beleza onírica dos "Jardins do Paraíso" e a opressão de concreto da cidade dos operários.
    Os trabalhadores operam as máquinas e, por sua vez, as máquinas operam os trabalhadores. Homem e tecnologia estão fatidicamente ligados, numa relação de dependência que ilustra o terror da modernidade frente o pretenso poder dominador da técnica sobre o ser humano, uma certa crença paranóica na sua independência e no seu descontrole. A desumanização do trabalhador, a formação de hordas de autômatos (cyborgs interpretativos??), massacrados pela rotina mecânica e monótona, escravizados pelo aparelho é um dos temas presentes no filme, uma preocupação que permeava o início do século e as doutrinas filosóficas, a exemplo do Marxismo. Os operários de Metropolis, assim como os de Tempos Modernos, de Charles Chaplin, formam rebanhos. A cena em que Freder tem uma alucinação e vê trabalhadores sendo literalmente engolidos pela monstruosa máquina em que trabalham revela uma tecnologia cuja fome de vidas humanas é insaciável.
    Previsões trágicas, futuros fantasticamente aterrorizantes, a cidade como um universo caótico, belo e perverso, as "aero-vias", a tecnologia massacrando a humanidade... Algumas das mais sólidas bases para a ficção científica cinematográfica são aqui lançadas e irão influenciar a construção de outras "Metropolis", como a Los Angeles de 2019, de Blade Runner.
  • August 9, 2007
    A thousand times better than the average modern Hollywood blockbuster, this 80yo film is atmospheric, intelligent, imaginitive, beautiful to look at, and, well... just so cool!
  • August 7, 2007
    This is, in my opinion, the true beginning of the modern Science Fiction genre.
  • August 3, 2007
    The Granddaddy of scifi. 3hrs silent movie
  • August 3, 2007
    Very intriguing... worth a viewing.
  • July 31, 2007
    Une belle leçon d'humilité pour les réalisateurs contemporains
  • July 29, 2007
    See this with a live orchestra, specifically the Alloy Orchestra. You may have to travel, but it's worth it. Great movie, better live.
  • July 25, 2007
    A musical masterpiece.
  • July 19, 2007
    My favorite silent movie! An early sci-fi classic.
  • July 18, 2007
    4 the sci-fi enthusiasts, very impressive but im not 1 of them so i wuld say 'yea ok'
  • July 17, 2007
    Wow, pretty neat. Really evident why this is such a landmark film. Basic story of opressed masses, greedy fat cats and people trying to exploit sentiment and twist a movement to their own ends, winding up in a cataclysm of their own making.

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