...viewed today, Heston's sci-fi flicks seem dated and square. (TCM Greatest Classic Films: Sci-Fi)
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09/14/09
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... [More]
Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Edward G. Robinson
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Reviews for Soylent Green
A sluggishly directed look at life and death in the 21st century.
06/05/07
Top CriticThe 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.
06/05/07
Top CriticUneven and slightly muddled futuristic horror story -- not really science fiction, more like an antipollution PSA gone berserk.
06/05/07
Top CriticModestly entertaining.
05/09/06
Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.
02/09/06
This futuristic thriller just seems to keep getting better with age. An entertaining sci-fi flick done before special effects took over the genre.
10/10/05
No review available.
08/14/05
Their 21st-century New York occasionally is frightening but it is rarely convincingly real.
05/09/05
Top CriticThe future never looked as retro...
07/05/04
No review available.
03/27/04
A doozy.
10/05/03
Top CriticNo review available.
10/04/03
still contains enough pleasures even with the 'secret' so well known
08/30/03
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.
08/22/03
It's quite an amusing movie.
08/10/03
The SNL skits are better
08/02/03
A stoic Heston, a nice turn for Robinson, and see-through ironies.
04/02/03
It would have made a great episode of The Twilight Zone, but feature length is too much for its premise.
01/11/03
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