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Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The first must-see film of the year.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

a dystopia. not different by many others, under the same George Orwell mark. but fascinating for its special beauty. dark, cold, ashes atmosphere, a story about a kind of ghosts or zombies, almost an experiment with any success ambition. a film about future like a very simple puzzle. few elements, an unusual hero, crumbs of sexuality, pieces from Brazil. not real convincing, it is only a question from a long evening, warning about technology and one of that stories about nothing who, after their end, remains a confuse collection of memories with role of emotions. the strange beauty is the basic virtue of film. and that could be all. or, only , the beginning to see again.

I kept waiting for something interesting to happen but it never did.It is an anti-capitalist fairy-tale set in the near future.The animation style is unusual and original but no one seems to have noticed that different is always the same as good. You have some photo-realistic parts, mostly the faces, coupled with animated parts but neither is done well. In the animated parts any movement, walking in particular, looks like those 1950s cartoons where everything is jerky, more like the movement of a puppet than a person, maybe this is an intentional style but it just looks badly drawn. In the photo-realistic parts they are just realistic enough to make their flaws seem bigger, the faces look excellent when not moving but when they should be showing facial expressions they look dead, and this is distracting in a way that normal animation isn't.The plot is rubbish; a dull, unimaginative and unoriginal story with nothing to recommend it.The pace is really slow, this might be because 10 minutes of plot is being stretched into a whole film.The characters have little personality and what they have isn't likable.I like dark films, I like sci-fi, I like animation and yet I honestly could not find a single thing to like in this film.

This film certainly is grim and grimy to look at but it is interesting and I consider that high praise. It reminds me a bit of Red Spectacles in which Mamoru Oshii has all of his film in black and white with a good film noir look, except for the spectacles, which are of doubtful utility and doubtful provenance. In this film the femme fatal is colorful and most of the rest of the crowded herd is as bland as the scenery.What is missing here is motivation for the grand sweep of the underlying conspiracy. Like Douglas Adams wrote, "Was it just some bug eyed monster trying to take over the universe for no very good reason." In this case our hero seeks to find out why he is malcontent and why he hears voices and finds answers to both but no real solutions and this is unfortunate, because while his problems are his own the portrayed conspiratorial play has no clear purpose, unless it's just to take over the world to make money, but that is a tired and threadbare plot played out in Washington every day. Ho hum.But his search and his Orphic trek through the underworld of a Future Europe is interesting and worth looking at. It is also interesting as a computer graphic style using live actors and reprocessing them, apparently, to cartoon proportions. This is something you get used to soon enough and so has no obvious reason, except that it is kind of neat. Perhaps I missed something.

Before seeing this film I heard it was made with an innovative visual style, so challenging the technical aspects took a long time to create. But what struck me immediately when it began was how bad it looked. Those who called this visually impressive can't be serious, the film is simply ugly. At parts I feel like I'm watching a video game from the 90s. There is absolutely no depth in the picture, the movements are extremely slow and everything is overall so stiff. The characters are so lifeless it's like you are watching statues. But someone might say the technical is not all. I agree with that but the design is just as bad. The dystopian scenery has no originality, just the normal stuff in this kind of genre. If the houses and stuff are just the regular the design of the humans is kind of special but in a negative way. They look like statues made of clay. They've come somewhat close to the uncanny valley effect. The big heads and slow animation make them seem so lifeless it just gets worse. The voice acting is surprisingly weak, surprising because there are some usually good actors in the cast. But the voices are so wooden, it causes the characters to feel even more lifeless if possible. But maybe the dull acting is to blame on the directing and script, which brings me to the story. So the outside of the film is very poor but is there something on the inside then? The simple answer is no. I've already established that there can be zero development in the characters and the plot just maintains the low quality. The story is just stupid. Inspired by the 1984 kind of stuff but developed to something laughably dumb. Naturally it never gets the least interesting but it's also so ridiculous one feels embarrassed to be watching it. Who approved this story I cannot imagine. The story is not just dumb it's extremely thin, lacks in any substance and most twists are so poorly explained anyone pretty soon into the film realises most of it makes no sense. But it's so bad that one couldn't care less. Metropia must be one of the most boring films I've seen in years. If there is anything to be thankful about it's that the film is not that long but I still struggled to keep myself awake. To summarize Metropia is just plain rubbish. Visuals, technique, design, characters, story, everything fails completely. I did not like it to say the least 3/10.