Metropolis (2002)

In the futuristic Metropolis, robots are segregated and used for all the menial work. Many unemployed blame the robots and pushing for revolution. Duke Red is building a vast skyscraper. A robot disrupts the opening and Duke Red's son Rock destroys the robot. Private detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi are hunting for scientist Dr. Laughton who is supposedly trafficking organs. Laughton has actually been hired by Duke Red to recreate his deceased daughter with an advanced robot.The visual style of this animated movie is beautiful. This is worthwhile watch simply for the visual aspect. The story is functional for more than half of the movie. Kenichi and the robot on the run is pretty good. The rest is a bit disjointed and complicated. Motivation is tricky. The twists and reveals are questionable and the story is overstuffed. It is still a beautiful looking piece of animation.

this movie is a robot-romance violence type of movie , it kinda reminds me of green lantern TAS with the relationship between a red lantern named razor and aya the robot . is this a prediction of the future ? where humans have a romantic relationship with bots and also will their be a group of people who will protest against robots ? possibly This movie had a decent plot and great scenery , its a hybrid of 2D animation with 3D animation which was quite enjoyable to watch the only thing i didn't like was the character design , they look like sonic the hedgehog design but it didn't bother me too much plus its just my perspective .. not really hating on the movie . i highly recommend you download this movie in 1080p via torrent with eng sub or dub (which ever you prefer) . i seen this online and its terrible quality it was barely watchable i had to download it from kickass torrent .

I really wished this movie to succeed - its retro cyber punk world is really interesting and backgrounds do look amazing. Seriously, the retro future titanistic look of the buildings and subterran spaces is really great. On the other hand the characters do look childish and really outdated in style. Think of Tintin characters for example - very naive looking characters with primitive animation in 1920s style. The General himself looks like Mario - seriously. He is just laughable. These characters just do not fit to these great looking buildings.The story is absurd and seems to drift without any direction. The characters are not believable at all, they are not just flat, but they do behave in a simply absurd manner. Twists and kills are sudden and hard to follow - you just have no idea why something happened and motivation of characters is totally unclear. The most bizarre is the ten year old hit-man (or whatever he is) who is supposed to work for the Baron but not only ignores his interests but he is basically willing to kill everyone in his way like there is no law applying to him at all. The Baron seems not to have any connection with politics yet he simply builds super weapon and has no problem to test it live on his own without consent of Army or state. More or less it is just a roller-coaster of random yet beautiful scenes.In the end I'm not sure if the authors meant the movie to be full fledged serious cyber punk or just simple movie for the kids. It does not seem to be suitable for neither group. It is just too stupid to be serious scifi fan and too messy and hard to follow for the kids. Lots of empty speech, nonsense scenes, useless characters and even more pointless deaths. You might to try to compare this movie with Steamboy or Castle in the Sky but it is just way inferior to them.

I watched the first third of this movie about two months ago and then stopped because it made me angry. I finished it now, because I was bored. I'm still angry, so I give it a 5/10.First of, the animation is top of the line. I found the 3D elements sort of lacking (given the fact that its a cinema release), but still eye-pleasing.Metropolis looks simply gorgeous in every single shot. (like Blade Runner in blaring colours or Midgar in FinalFantasyVII(the game, not the movie)).The storyline is OK. Nothing too grand, and more of the "been there more'n once, seen it"-sort, but its still solid and carries the movie. Still, it was sort of predictable the whole way through. They could have done with a little less pathos, too. (come now, the most advanced robot that's ever been has a human shaped heart and it stops beating when the robot loses its humanity??? ...please...)The soundtrack is eerily fitting and, as someone wrote before me, I will probably always remember the final scenes of the movie because they absolutely nailed the music there.Now to the angry factor. I know it's a classic, and all the hardcore fanbase would have screamed in agony, but the character design is just grossly misplaced (to put it mildly), for this kind of movie. It's like Sin City would be drawn by Albert Uderzo. Storyline and Art just don't match. While Kenichi and Tima are not too bad (as they are kids), everyone else just falls out of the background. That duke for example. Or the detective. Every time they were on screen I got ripped out of an otherwise consistent world. You just shouldn't mix a serious story with visual oddballs. Look at the "Ghost in the Shell"-movies. They pretty much kicked Shirows Manga Designs into the can and went for a more realistic approach. What did we get? A more believable world.Well, this single fact pretty much ruined a lot of the fun this movie could have been for me. If you don't care about that (watch the trailer first), you're in for an above average piece of anime.