pietclausen This film is rated very highly as a futuristic sci-fi story made in 1927 setting the example how future sci-fi would be made some 40 years later.As a silent movie, albeit with a music sound track added to it, it remains an extremely difficult movie to follow, as the limited interspersed written sections in between scenes are all in German, though the film has been updated with previous lost parts and supposedly, addition of English translations.The movie I saw, was indeed on BluRay with an on-screen written explanation in English, giving the movie's history and how lost parts had been recovered. But the movie itself was still completely the German version.A classic movie? No way! After an hour I scanned through the rest and found nothing of interest in this overlong movie. It should have remained on the rubbish heap.

angus-lamont I watched this film for the first time last night (courtesy of the stunning Eureka! Blu- Ray) and was totally blown away. This film was light-years ahead of its time in terms of its filmmaking techniques. I can definitely see how films such as "Blade Runner" and "Star Wars" were influenced by this masterpiece. Stop whatever you are doing, order the Blu Ray (make sure it has the original score) and dedicate just under 3 hours of your time to this amazing film. You will not be disappointed!

Behnam azizi This is unbelievable!I was sitting on the sofa watching the movie in an apartment in the middle of a city with high towers that host the rich, poor people around the city living in old and outdated places and bridges an tunnels that connect them. And the machines are everywhere. machines run by the hands of the poor to fulfill the mind of the rich. And I was watching a movie from 1927 that pictures my city exactly as it is now! this is unbelievable!And The heart that is the required element that connects the hands into the minds in its right way in the movie, that was the only missing part here! I was looking for the heart in my city and found none. Maybe it has been faked nowadays?! I was thinking of the media or religion and tried to compare them with the crosses in the Maria's place or the inventor's wicked acts. That was what I found, However you may find something else.The Visual Effect at the other hand, It was a masterfully accurate prediction. for a product from 1927, that was too much to be believed. A perfect Sci-fi for the time being and a powerful reminder of our lost hearts for our time.

Weiming Sheng Metropolis is something I have never seen before: first it is a silent film which I am not at all familiar with, and also it is such an epic told in the 1920s. No wonder why it is called a classics. Just judging from its visuals, this is much better than films coming out even 30 years later. The storytelling and performance style are a bit old for modern taste, but are not entirely outdated. Most characters feel real and relatable, though from time to time I fail to connect because of the incredibly long time elapsed between me streaming and the movie being made. Overall, it is a great futurism film, probably has created that genre, and I am genuinely amazed at almost every aspect of it.