...viewed today, Heston's sci-fi flicks seem dated and square. (TCM Greatest Classic Films: Sci-Fi)
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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Reviews for Soylent Green
The film was a typical seventies sci-fi effort, scientifically illiterate and unimaginatively composed.
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.
Uneven and slightly muddled futuristic horror story -- not really science fiction, more like an antipollution PSA gone berserk.
Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.
This futuristic thriller just seems to keep getting better with age. An entertaining sci-fi flick done before special effects took over the genre.
Their 21st-century New York occasionally is frightening but it is rarely convincingly real.
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.
It would have made a great episode of The Twilight Zone, but feature length is too much for its premise.
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