The classic silent film fantasy of a futuristic city and its society.
“METROPOLIS has mass appeal over here [United States], but without class appeal of any character. It’s a weird story, visionary all of the time, without any degree of unusual imagination and oft times monotonous. With all, a puzzling film which might deceive the most expert picture showman. Yet it holds something that holds the picture audience and will draw to a picture house.
“Without a press sheet exactly what is striven for must be doped out. It appears to be that the mechanical can never wholly substitute for the human labor, nor must Capital entirely exhaust its working people or that the human physical elements may never be mechanically transposed ...
“Some sex stuff here and there and a cooch dancer! Yes sir, a coocher. In the revigorated mechanical figure, and a pretty good coocher too, but not so thick around the hips as German coochers generally are. But then you must remember that this young lady was made to order.” (Variety Film Reviews, 1926-1929)