Things To Come - As a screenwriter H G Wells was a fantastic novelist. For all its groundbreaking ideas and an excellent first 20 mins this film feels dramatically inert to me, especially in its flabby midsection where I lost track of the characters and nearly fell asleep. Things perk up a bit when the sci fi kicks in and the future city rises (or rather descends) but IMO the comparable Metropolis blows this out of the water - Lang was a visionary filmmaking genius, there's no such spark here.
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