Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.
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02/09/06
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
As a science fiction film that relies more on viewers' intelligence than special effects, it represents something that is sorely missed in today's Hollywood.
08/02/01
It's a rare film that makes death a pleasant and more preferable alternative than living
01/01/00
A thought-provoking movie that is still relevant with the many environmental concerns that are out there now.
08/01/02
Uneven and slightly muddled futuristic horror story -- not really science fiction, more like an antipollution PSA gone berserk.
06/05/07
Top CriticIt's quite an amusing movie.
08/10/03
still contains enough pleasures even with the 'secret' so well known
08/30/03
Classic science fiction that is well-worth seeing.
01/01/00
...viewed today, Heston's sci-fi flicks seem dated and square. (TCM Greatest Classic Films: Sci-Fi)
09/14/09
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
Modestly entertaining.
05/09/06
The future never looked as retro...
07/05/04
This influential vision of an overpopulated future has a horrific plausibility that's hard to shake off.
09/26/01
Their 21st-century New York occasionally is frightening but it is rarely convincingly real.
05/09/05
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 CriticA sluggishly directed look at life and death in the 21st century.
06/05/07
Top CriticA doozy.
10/05/03
Top CriticThe SNL skits are better
08/02/03
A stoic Heston, a nice turn for Robinson, and see-through ironies.
04/02/03
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
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