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From H.G. Wells' shocking book comes one of the most lavish science fiction epics ever to hit the screen! It is the year 1940 and civilization has been torn apart by a global war–transformed from a place of order and progress into a nightmarish landscape of fear and disease. One small warring tribe struggles for its existence, when out of the sky comes a fantastic craft bearing a mysterious stranger who offers them a new path, one free of war and strife. Spanning generations, Things to Come is science fiction on a grand scale, featuring eye-popping sets, a larger than life performance by Academy Award nominee Ralph Richardson, and the powerful score of Sir Arthur Bliss. Lavishly restored in high definition from the original film elements, Things to Come was selected and personally color-designed by legendary effects master Ray Harryhausen.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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92%- Reviews Counted: 24
- Fresh: 22
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 7.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Things to Come is an unusual picture, a fantasy, if you will, with overtones of the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips. But it is, as well, a picture with ideas which have been expressed dramatically and with visual fascination.
Fresh: [An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936.
Fresh: Spookily prescient in many of its ideas, this is fascinating whilst being a little clumsy and dated, even for its time.
Fresh: In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.
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