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Director: Tarik Saleh
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From Time Out London
For anyone who thought the problem with ‘The Matrix’ were all those ideas, action sequences and attractive, interesting people, here's ‘Metropia’, possibly the most drab, dull-witted entry yet in the ever-expanding ‘future sucks’ playbook. In a grey-hued dystopian future of mud, grit and stormclouds, the cities of Europe have been linked into one giant underground rail system. A cast of emaciated animated bobbleheads – voiced disinterestedly by the likes of Gallo and Lewis – engage in a lacklustre continental cat-and-mouse game as they attempt to prevent an evil corporation from controlling the citizenry through their mind-warping dandruff shampoo.Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out London London Film Festival 2009
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