Nice effects though.

Just perfect...

Good concept, poorly executed.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

it could be a dark utopia. or only reflection of present. in fact, it is a portrait. for fears, searches, self definitions, paranoia, secrets, conspiracies and perception of life as a long and gray chain of day by day. in same measure, it is a kind of explanation. for hidden realities, for dreams and expectations, for the status of people as tools, for the reasons escaping to the predictability, so, a reflection support. one far to be bad because animation is always inspired form for remind basic truths.

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.

So. Metropia. Well, I really wanted to like this film. I love science fiction, especially intelligent science fiction, but Metropia does not cut it. I didn't like the flat, one dimensional way they did the CGI, but that's just me. They wanted to try something different and it didn't work for me. However, I didn't find the whole thing visually interesting. The grayish, sepia tones helped establish the mood of the film, but too much of anything can become monotonous. In the first 'Alien' there's an undercurrent of dread, even before anyone dies, but the lighting changes depending on what part of the ship they're in. Even '1984' changes lighting more often! The dialogue is good, but hardly remarkable. The main character didn't evoke much sympathy. He's a bit TOO much of a schlump. Too much of an everyman to be interesting. The voices in his head do a good job of confusing him and the audience. Are they actual voices, or is he slowly losing his mind? However, that too is a bit confusing. And not in a good way. It turns out the corporation, run by an old, crusty, almost decrepit old businessman is in fact monitoring us all. They are feeding us instructions when we stray from the path of conformity and obedience. However, we don't learn to what end. It wasn't clear what they wanted to accomplish. If that was mentioned anywhere in the film, it was not clear. And to me, that's poor storytelling.I rented this on a Friday night, got about 45 minutes in and fell asleep. Never a good sign in a movie. A movie can be slow paced, but there still has to be dramatic tension. Or suspense. This movie did not have it. Of course, I should realize; any movie Vincent Gallo's involved in is going to plod along unbelievably slowly. The premise is good. The average person needing to wake up and not be controlled by corporations or advertising or whatever, is a good idea. I give the movie credit for what it attempts, even though it's been done many times before. However, the execution of this idea was pretty poor. Kind of like when the blonde tries to alert the protagonist to the danger and get him to help her. She tries to seduce him, unfortunately in her underwear instead of completely nude. (And since there was nudity earlier, the movie didn't hold back to be a nice PG film.)If she'd approached him stark naked, he might have found her impossible to resist. She too had a good idea, but it was very poorly executed.

I love the look of this movie. It looks like they took photographs, made the heads bigger than the body and the eyes bigger than they should be and animated the result. It is purposely non-fluid and wonderfully conveys a grim, claustrophobic quality. I also thought the basic premise was cool, but I'm going to put in a spoiler section to complain about how little sense it made, ultimately.********* SPOILER SECTION BELOW ************ In the movie, the protagonist hears a voice speaking paranoid thoughts. For example, it tells him his girlfriend might be cheating on him. But he doesn't feel they are his own thoughts. Is he going crazy? It's a cool idea, and it's cool to discover that as a matter of fact he is not going crazy; a corporation has developed a shampoo that allows operatives to use people's brain for communicating and receiving, meaning you can see what is happening in someone's life and comment on it through a microphone that broadcasts into their brain.That's awesome, but here's the problem: why is the guy on the microphone telling the protagonist his girlfriend is cheating on him and other paranoid thoughts? He's not a sadist, so he's not just doing it to be mean. Presumably this is his job. But it appears that the shampoos purpose is actually for mind control, to convince people to buy certain products or vote certain ways, so how is this goal achieved? The filmmakers seem to have liked the idea of someone broadcasting paranoid thoughts into someone else's brain to the point where they didn't care if it made any sense in terms of the story, and that annoyed me. But I still thought it was a cool movie.