![]() Our story takes place in Metropolis, an enormous futuristic city at war with itself: robots have taken most of the jobs and manual labor, leaving many humans destitute.or at the very least, pissed off. Written by Katsuhiro Otomo ( Akira) and directed by Shigeyuki "Rintaro" Hayashi, this is a far-reaching film with more than a few memorable moments but way too much going on. It doesn't fulfill all those promises, but at least stays afloat on pure visual strength: with its impressive combination of hand-drawn animation and CGI elements, Metropolis easily defies its modest $15M budget and still looks more like a movie twice that expensive.īut while it looks pretty great, Metropolis bites off more than it can chew in the story department. ![]() The spirit is the same, though: like most stories rooted in science fiction, Metropolis attempts to predict the future by borrowing concepts from different time periods, inventing a few new ones, and hoping to reveal something meaningful about our current time in the process. ![]() A visually ambitious slice of futuristic drama, Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis (2001) is kinda-sorta based on his 1949 manga and Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film.but not really.
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