A very unique Scandinavian-English language film from the technical aspect. The only one kind in the whole world which is actually an experimental product from the new productions. It was made primarily using photoshop, and then adobe after effects for animation. If you're wondering what kind it is, actually a 2.5D animation, that means it is neither 2D or 3D, but between those two. Like tricking the 2D object as the 3D material.Well they have succeeded to bring a visually impressive animation that mainly focused on the film character faces. The story was decent which is another dystopian concept where metro trains are the main content, hence it is called 'Metropia'. But the title also means 'visual refraction', that's what the story is slightly related too.Anyway, it was very suspenseful till the final and mostly talking drama than physical action sequences. At some point I felt it was like the recent stop-motion animation 'Anomalisa', but realised that I predicted wrong and the story travelled in a different path to end decently. Though the overall film was very impressive from both technical and narrative wise. One must not miss it, just for a its rare kind, especially you like animations, but best suitable for adults.7/10

Wow thank you netflix for this gem. The movie takes you to an alternate world of familiarity and future corporate controlled desolation. I need one movie like this a year. A fresh interesting idea with a clear vision of what it's trying to convey. Yeah I know that people won't like the ending to this. Grow up. This has great dialogue through inner monologue and minute facial inflections that let you into the main characters desolated world. Visually this is stunning and is meticulously done. Who ever worked on this project deserves serious credit. The color pallet keeps it cold and weary the whole time, and characters keep it compelling the whole time. I couldn't peel my eyes off this world for the duration of the film. There's so many levels of eye candy its rediclious. It's been a while since I was like wow in such a slow menial film that it self doesn't have to do a whole lot to pull you into this surreal world. Definitely worth watching.

Take a trip to Europe in the year 2024. This is a dark age, where the automobile is no longer in use, replaced by a cross country subway system. The most popular product on the market (in fact pretty much the only item) is a shampoo manufactured with a secret mind controlling chemical, which the major corporations use to monitor the public in George Orwell fashion.In an age where animation can do anything, the decision to do almost nothing certainly stands out in film. Metropia is without doubt the bleakest animated feature I know; a murky institutional world, without a drop of color or sunshine, and everywhere we go is under lit. This makes enough sense when taking into account that this is a future where society is low on energy. Not everything however feels credible. The absence of people in great numbers is unusual. The few people who do wander in and out of frame are almost hollow shells. They have no soul, but more importantly they have no movement. Metropia uses the least amount of energy possible to give life to illustrations. To attempt to describe it is not impossible, but it's something that is better off seen for ones self. Metropia is a haunting experience. It's almost a ghost world, not just from the absence of sight, but from the absence of sound. Metropia makes effective use of silence in all the right places, accompanied by an effective, very new age score. As for the storyline, it is familiar, but not painfully so. It's similar to Brazil, which itself is the product of George Orwell's influence. The climax here feels a bit rushed, and easy, leaving Metropia a bit shorter than I think it should've been, but it remains an entertaining experiment.

My subject line says it all. The film has an interesting animation style that kept me guessing, is it photography plus animation? Is it some incredibly realistic computer graphics plus obviously-animated human figures? But apart from some mild interest in the mechanics I found it overwhelmingly dull. It was quite derivative - as others have mentioned here, it was reminiscent of Blade Runner, with a 1984 theme. It also did not make a lick of sense. Despite some blather about the society being oil depleted etc. it was not clear how that related to anything, and it seemed to be about the evils of corporate capitalism controlling the political system (or something) but at the same time this evil entity seemed to be forcing people into very un-materialistic living standards. So it many have had socially critical points to make but they were made in a nonsensical way with lots of borrowing from far better fare.