I think this is one of the most amazing movies from silent era not only in terms of "visual effects". Story is interesting and entertaining to watch.

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.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. There's no doubt that Metropolis influence lots of sci-fi films like Matrix, Star Wars, Blade Runner and even Terminator but that doesn't mean that it's a good film. It's slow and boring, there's no sound and it felt like watching Charlie Chaplin so now offense but this film wasted my time. (0/10)

Oh! I loved this movie so much that I don't even know where to start! The fact that Metropolis was produced on the 20's didn't give me high hopes at first. However, the perfect coordination of an in-depth meaning and photography, soundtrack and motion, and most important of all, the impacting expression of strong emotions towards the crude reality of capitalism, left me more speechless than the movie itself! It is totally worth watching and do not mind the length--it will not matter if you get enrolled by the message. Should we leave capitalism do its "magic" where surplus is squeezed on a few hands thanks to the undermined labor? Should be break the system and ask for revolution? Or should we find a mediator, a heart, between head and hands? We are still nine years away from 2026. Now it is on us to compare how different is Metropolis' version of the system from our current social and economic inequality and maybe that way, we can find the correct answer to all of these questions.