This movie grabs a concept that never runs thin: the visualization of the future as if it were made some 50 years ago. So, the result is the beautiful sight of a kind of Jules Verne vision: blimps dodge the never-ending-Empire-State-Building-like skyscrapers, like in the Fritz Lang movie with the same name (of which this movie is NOT a remake). Here we follow the eternal duel man /machine, and the way every empire has its high point and its last fall. The animation is beautifully achieved, and they managed to make Metropolis also a player in this movie. To go with all this, there's a great music score, by Toshiyuki Honda. The picture brings out the best of japanese animation, along with an immense vision of a utopian future, and the result is an unforgetable ride through the things we only dare to dream...
Review of Metropolis
