The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
This is England's first $1 million picture. It's an impressive but dull exposition of a bad dream.
– ,
Variety,
31 May 2007
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[An] imaginative, only occasionally naive forecast of the age of nuclear warfare in 1936.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
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In the realm of 'prophetic science fiction', it is a genre landmark.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
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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.