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Soylent Green (1973)

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Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:22

Rotten:9

Average Rating:6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Synopsis: 21st century New York City is (still) an overpopulated mess, and the only food left is Soylent Green, a soybean and lentil concoction with an extra-special, government-mandated ingredient. As... 21st century New York City is (still) an overpopulated mess, and the only food left is Soylent Green, a soybean and lentil concoction with an extra-special, government-mandated ingredient. As police detective Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates a murder, he learns of a conspiracy with bizarre implications. This Edward G. Robinson's final movie, as the star died not long after filming his final scene. Based on Harry Harrison's "Make Room! Make Room!" [More]

Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Edward G. Robinson

Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Edward G. Robinson, Dick Van Patten, Stephen Young, Paula Kelly, Brock Peters

Director: Richard Fleischer

Director: Richard Fleischer
Screenwriter: Stanley R. Greenberg
Producer: Walter Seltzer
Composer: Fred Myrow

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Aug 5, 2003

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Reviews for Soylent Green

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...viewed today, Heston's sci-fi flicks seem dated and square. (TCM Greatest Classic Films: Sci-Fi)

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09/14/09
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

The film was a typical seventies sci-fi effort, scientifically illiterate and unimaginatively composed.

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06/15/07
Douglas Pratt
Douglas Pratt
DVDLaser

A sluggishly directed look at life and death in the 21st century.

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06/05/07
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The somewhat plausible and proximate horrors in the story of Soylent Green carry the production over its awkward spots to the status of a good futuristic exploitation film.

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06/05/07
Variety
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Uneven and slightly muddled futuristic horror story -- not really science fiction, more like an antipollution PSA gone berserk.

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06/05/07
Don Druker
Don Druker
Chicago Reader
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Modestly entertaining.

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05/09/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

This futuristic thriller just seems to keep getting better with age. An entertaining sci-fi flick done before special effects took over the genre.

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10/10/05
Chuck O'Leary
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No review available.

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08/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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Their 21st-century New York occasionally is frightening but it is rarely convincingly real.

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05/09/05
A.H. Weiler
A.H. Weiler
New York Times
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The future never looked as retro...

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07/05/04
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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No review available.

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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

A doozy.

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10/05/03
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No review available.

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10/04/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
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still contains enough pleasures even with the 'secret' so well known

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08/30/03
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
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Thanks to Phil Hartman’s riotous Saturday Night Live impersonation of Charlton Heston’s hysterical detective from Soylent Green, people who’ve never seen Richard Fleischer’s film know its surprise ending.

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08/22/03
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

It's quite an amusing movie.

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08/10/03
Jeremiah Kipp
Jeremiah Kipp
Filmcritic.com

The SNL skits are better

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08/02/03
John Esther
John Esther
Pasadena Weekly

A stoic Heston, a nice turn for Robinson, and see-through ironies.

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04/02/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

It would have made a great episode of The Twilight Zone, but feature length is too much for its premise.

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01/11/03
Rob Vaux
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