Things to Come Reviews

Its lecture-dialogue stilted and ideas simplistic, 'Things to Come' is nevertheless a worthy visual experience.

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Essential viewing today for anyone interested in the history of celluloid science fiction, but general audiences will most likely find it to be dull.

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Things to Come is an unusual picture, a fantasy, if you will, with overtones of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips. But it is, as well, a picture with ideas which have been expressed dramatically and with visual fascination.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A truly epic work which continues to fascinate.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Spookily prescient in many of its ideas, this is fascinating whilst being a little clumsy and dated, even for its time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.

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Wells' heart must have sunk as audiences avoided his impassioned and idealistic -- yet dour and didactic -- cri de coeur.

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| Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 3/5

An astonishing black-and-white visualization of Wells' view of the future.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 4/5

Landmark sci-fi achievement by Menzies, and still imitated.

| Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 5/5

At once dated and weirdly modern, this may not be the film Wells wanted it to be, but it's still more ambitious and impressive than most fantasy cinema of the past 30 years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

| Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 3/5

Simplistic, but great looking and with a great Arthur Bliss score

| Original Score: 3/5

[An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936.

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