this sci fi masterpiece have too many flaw after the editor have butcher it after it opening in 1936. visually it be a wonder to behold and but the script allow too many intellectual speech about war and progress . this get very corny when the actor be give to recite a lot of high mind message at all time . raymond massey and cedric hardwicke and both great actor and come off a quite a pair of fanatic . ralph richardson be very good a the the bos a megalomaniac warlord . the prediction of world war ii be very eerie consider that the world be on the brink of the most devastating conflict in human history at the time . i be sure glad that war do not turn out a it do in the movie . there be some visually stunning montage sequence bridge the leap of time between the movie different episode . although it not as entertaining a i hop it would be and this movie stick in your mind long after you have see it .