Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

WakenPayne This is a movie that sat on my shelf for over a year but only now have I decided to sit down and watch it. It was an interesting experience and quite clearly nothing like anything else I've seen before and probably never will see again. But with that said there are problems in the story and characters.The plot is that Roger is working at a dead end job and because he sees a girl he has a crush on that he has only seen in commercials he decides to follow her on a train, which now in 2024 - the Metro systems of all the European countries are interconnected. He then finds a conspiracy going on that the more he uses the certain type of shampoo his crush has advertised, then people will monitor you and have this other office worker talk in your mind at you.I don't mind dystopian future stories but in this the biggest problem is the dystopian future. So the villain's plan is to use shampoo to take over the world... Okay, how does that work? I know they explain how they can monitor people because their hair is like an antenna but even then that's a bit of a stretch and even if I could suspend my disbelief that due to hair people can be monitored and talked to via radio wave - ridiculous, but maybe that still begs the question of the entire point of this plan working was how well advertised the shampoo is and what if there were people out there who didn't use the shampoo and have some guy talking to them all the time? It begs a lot of questioning including the other question of if Roger is bald then why does he even use the shampoo in the first place? It just doesn't work.In stark contrast the best thing about this movie is the rather odd and quirky animation. It really is something I have never seen before and could have actually worked in giving the audience a strange feeling about the vision for the future you are about to visit. If I could see more movies by this animation studio, if the premise is better then I would see it as soon as I possibly could.The other elements of the movie either range from bland or good. I'd consider the acting to be very good and I didn't recognize a single voice from the Skarsgards in this movie nor did I recognize Sofia Helin's either, but even then they do the best with what they're given. The characters on the other hand get really bland. But either way I think this premise in places could have actually worked. If instead it was about something like corruption in the international metro then it would be better then taking over the world with shampoo (I'm sorry I can't get over that!) either way if what you're looking for is a style over substance experience that combines dystopian futures with elements (I said elements!) of a Film Noir then this actually maybe for you.

Borislav Dopudja I have watched this move on a hint, haven't expected it to be much, but in the end it turned out swell. The atmosphere created and the style of the movie is excellent. I have really enjoyed it, as it is not heavy, but more tranquil-food-for-thought kind of movie.The number of allegories in the movie is overwhelming, and there are many connections with how the society functions today.The low ratings for this movie are almost certainly there because of the complexity of the work, not because it is bad. Getting to IMDb it immediately reminded me about Aronofsky's Fountain, which had (and still has) sub par user rating compared to the quality of the work.I think that Metropia is worthwhile and enjoyable work, and can recommend it.

Samiam3 Take a trip to Europe in the year 2024. This is a dark age, where the automobile is no longer in use, replaced by a cross country subway system. The most popular product on the market (in fact pretty much the only item) is a shampoo manufactured with a secret mind controlling chemical, which the major corporations use to monitor the public in George Orwell fashion.In an age where animation can do anything, the decision to do almost nothing certainly stands out in film. Metropia is without doubt the bleakest animated feature I know; a murky institutional world, without a drop of color or sunshine, and everywhere we go is under lit. This makes enough sense when taking into account that this is a future where society is low on energy. Not everything however feels credible. The absence of people in great numbers is unusual. The few people who do wander in and out of frame are almost hollow shells. They have no soul, but more importantly they have no movement. Metropia uses the least amount of energy possible to give life to illustrations. To attempt to describe it is not impossible, but it's something that is better off seen for ones self. Metropia is a haunting experience. It's almost a ghost world, not just from the absence of sight, but from the absence of sound. Metropia makes effective use of silence in all the right places, accompanied by an effective, very new age score. As for the storyline, it is familiar, but not painfully so. It's similar to Brazil, which itself is the product of George Orwell's influence. The climax here feels a bit rushed, and easy, leaving Metropia a bit shorter than I think it should've been, but it remains an entertaining experiment.

Gin-ster My subject line says it all. The film has an interesting animation style that kept me guessing, is it photography plus animation? Is it some incredibly realistic computer graphics plus obviously-animated human figures? But apart from some mild interest in the mechanics I found it overwhelmingly dull. It was quite derivative - as others have mentioned here, it was reminiscent of Blade Runner, with a 1984 theme. It also did not make a lick of sense. Despite some blather about the society being oil depleted etc. it was not clear how that related to anything, and it seemed to be about the evils of corporate capitalism controlling the political system (or something) but at the same time this evil entity seemed to be forcing people into very un-materialistic living standards. So it many have had socially critical points to make but they were made in a nonsensical way with lots of borrowing from far better fare.