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Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This is quite a troubling movie. It is so broad in its scope and so cynical in its intent. Until the election of 2016, I thought this was a bit far fetched. Unfortunately, we have our own Cabal for the time being and we hope things don't disintegrate as they could. What we have here is a devastating war which results in the destruction of most of the world. Evil people are doing evil things and technology has virtually disappeared. It has devolved into tribal peoples (naturally) and the prospects for recovery are not good. Eventually, a force develops which has plans to recreate society. The problem is that societal evolution is hard to plan because human beings are the objects of the plan. On the one hand, there are all the incredible advancements brought about by necessity; on the other, a fear of men playing god. This is quite a curiosity. The film's fate depends on restoration because of the kinds of film that were used in those days. This is certainly worth a look, however, even though the quality is quite poor.

I saw this film as a young boy and really enjoyed it as a kid. I saw it again several more times as an adult and through the eyes of a b/w movie lover. This movie will always stand great through the passage of time. The plot , story line of this movie is so predicting of our actual future that it is incredible. Then again H.G. Wells is well known for his genius of fantasy and creativity. The acting was very accommodating for the story they were playing out. I was fortunate enough to recently find that this movie had been high quality colorized which made it even more interesting to watch. The color seems to add to the details of the picture. I can highly recommend this movie to old movie buffs. I couldn't live without it. It is one of thousands of movies in my collection but it will always stand out as one of my favorites. It is a great si-fi futuristic movie of the 1930's.

It starts in 1940 Christmas Everytown. The world is at the brink of war. Once it starts, war lasts for decades destroying civilization along the way. Diease and pestilence are spread. The world collapses into a dark age of perpetual war rule by warlords and limited resources. There's even an epidemic of zombie-like sickness. In the end, the world is conquer by a new world order of peace and prosperity as human beings launch into space.Sometimes the story drags with clunky dialog, and clunkier acting. There aren't any standouts. The characters change through the years, and it's hard to maintain interest in one single character. The characters aren't that compelling. And the story just doesn't have an emotional impact.The special effects are using all the old silent era movie tricks. Also there are big sets and big props. They're using real planes as well as miniatures. Director William Cameron Menzies is using everything within his arsenal. It's interesting to see the predicted world through the years. Some of it is outlandish and unrealistic. However there are some fun production designs. This is an interesting look at H.G. Wells predictions as well as a big production with special effects.

I assumed that this film would be about space, astronauts or aliens because of the image I saw from the film, I didn't think to read any description besides the mention in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, so I was looking forward to watching it, from writer H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine). Basically set in the fictional British city of Everytown in 1940, successful businessman John Cabal (Raymond Massey) was sure a war would happen, and so was Dr. Harding (Maurice Braddell), only optimistic Passworthy (Edward Chapman) was convinced it wouldn't happen, and if it did it would only help the need for technology, but soon enough global war occurred after bombings began. Later some enemy bombers are taken down, and an enemy airman (John Clements) was pulled from the wreckage, and for some time poisonous gas drifted through the air, the war continued for decades that the survivors forgot why it began in the first place, and as a result a Dark Age has taken over humanity. There is little technology besides the firearms by the year 1966, and a "wandering sickness" has infected many vulnerable people, including Mary Gordon (Ann Todd), the daughter of Dr. Harding, and they find it hard to find a cure, and in 1970 we see The Boss (Ralph Richardson), a local warlord rise to power in the south of England with the newfound fuel supply. May that same year a strange aeroplane from a near future design lands outside of Everytown, the single pilot John Cabal (also Massey) comes out claiming to be from a civilisation called Wings Over the World, and he is the one of band of surviving engineers and mechanics based in Barsa, Iraq who have put aside the war. The Boss gets his hands on Cabal and put him with aeroplane repair mechanic Richard Gordon (Derrick De Marney) and forced to work, and a little later the city is attacked with gigantic aeroplanes with sleeping gas bombs by Wings Over the World, The Boss tries to organise a counter attack that can't be completed, and he is killed while the people of the city awaken with the airmen having taken over. Technological progress builds throughout the city as the Wings Over the World carry out global consolidation over the coming decades, and by the year 2036 Everytown and many other places in the world have become modernised underground cities with mankind trying to adapt. Theotocopulos (Cedric Hardwicke) the sculptor however believes that the technology in progress has caused a threat to mankind, there is even the plan to have the first manned spacecraft travel around the Moon, the people called the Luddites want to bring down the governing council headed by Oswald Cabal (Massey again) with his grandson John Cabal. The Moon mission have Cabal's daughter Catherine (Pearl Argyle) and her boyfriend Horrie Passworthy (Pickles Livingston) volunteering, but a large mob rush to the launching sight of the spacecraft, only for Cabal to launch it ahead of schedule to stop destruction, and the final scene sees him deliver a speech about how humanity will always be exploring the quest for knowledge and trying to achieve technological breakthroughs, inventions and discoveries, but a choice must be made as to whether life will be changed for the better or worse with these future happenings. Also starring Edward Chapman as Pippa Passworthy / Raymond Passworthy, Margaretta Scott as Roxana / Rowena, Maurice Braddell as Dr. Harding, Sophie Stewart as Mrs. Cabal, George Sanders as Pilot and Terry-Thomas as a Man of the Future. The story of a city and a world spanning one hundred years of advancing technology is really clever when you consider the modern day now full of great inventions and growing cities, the war element obviously plays a realistic part considering the time it was made, and it has interesting visions of a coming future, I can see the comparison to Metropolis, it is a fantastic science-fiction epic. Very good!