Take a classic sci-fi silent film, add a gooey 80s pop score including the artists Pat Benatar (gross), Bonnie Tyler, Adam Ant, and Freddie Mercury, and you have Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis. Synthesizers pulse, guitars wail, and drum machines fire away (damn you, Pat Benatar!) in this 80s "update" of Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film. Moroder chose a simplified version of Metropolis (~80 minutes) probably because it was the only thing available at the time, but it looks like they made some timing choices for some of the shots are in slow-motion that weren't before. While the cheesy soundtrack and the few dashes of color definitely "80s-ify" Metropolis, I'm not sure I would have survived had it been any longer.
6/10
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