Metropolis (Metoroporisu) (2001)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 52 | Rotten: 8
A remarkable technical achievement, Metropolis' eye-popping visuals more than compensate for its relatively routine story.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 3
A remarkable technical achievement, Metropolis' eye-popping visuals more than compensate for its relatively routine story.
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Playing like a candy-colored hybrid of Fritz Lang's film of the same name and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis borrows its plot liberally from numerous legendary sci-fi sources (despite the fact that the original manga was released in 1945, certain cinematic aspects can't help but appearing overly familiar), all the while dazzling viewers on the same cutting-edge visual level as such anime classics as Akira and Ghost in the Shell. The common anime practice of combining
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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (8) | DVD (44)
Tale of the struggle for personal freedom in a futuristic, tyrannical society is light on action by contempo standards, and pic's look is uninteresting, apart from occasionally bizarre backgrounds.
It smoothly blends outrageously diverse visual styles and emotional tones.
Otomo's typically sophisticated script ensures slick pacing, combining humour, terror and pathos, particularly in the final scenes.
A film of staggering technical and visual virtuosity, filled with utterly amazing images, that's also entertaining and engaging for children and adults on several levels.
Top CriticThe imagery with which director Rintaro brings this world to animated life is unique and captivating.
Unlike most anime, whose most ardent fans outside Japan seem to be introverted young men with fantasy fetishes, Metropolis never seems hopelessly juvenile.
A fairly standard genre exercise, packed with light, detail, color, noise, and motion that add up to relatively little.
Com uma fabulosa direção de arte, uma animação expressiva e temas complexos, o filme representa um estímulo visual, intelectual e emocional intenso, resultando numa experiência fascinante.
Unfortunately, as this movie is a joy in visuals, it's a let-down plot-wise.
One of the most beautiful animated films ever produced.
Metropolis se veut une %u0153uvre impressionnante, à la hauteur des noms qui lui sont rattachés.
The film works best for this sheer spectacle.
Doubling up on the imagery makes for an interesting, though ultimately somewhat unfulfilling, experience.
Parts of it are very silly, but it is still extraordinarily powerful as cinema and its meanings grow murkier, not clearer, with what we now know of Lang's life.
One of the most important animated films ever made.
One of the best animated films I have ever seen, and it is one of the finest films released in the US last year.
While some of the subplots are very sketchy and the motivations of some of the characters are not clear, it is a journey worth taking because of the wondrous imagery.
In the end, the story doesn't really matter that much as this is really a vehicle for the amazing visuals.
One of the best looking and stylish animated movies in quite a while . . .
If you are a fan of animation you'll want to watch it more than once.
For something as splendid-looking as this particular film, the viewer expects something special but instead gets [sci-fi] rehash.
...a haunting vision, with images that seem more like disturbing hallucinations.
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- Robotic Angel (DE)
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