Storyline
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Directors
Cast
Charlton Heston, Leonard Stone, Dick Van Patten, Brock Peters, Roy Jenson, John Dennis, Joseph Cotten, Mike Henry, Whit Bissell, Chuck Connors, Nora Marlowe, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Celia Lovsky, Morgan Farley, John Barclay, Belle Mitchell, Cyril Delevanti, Joyce Williams, Robert Ito
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Reviews
83
Though the mystery has been spoiled somewhat by an over-revealed twist ending, Soylent Green still succeeds thanks to director Richard Fleischer's sure command of one of the grimmest and most sadly plausible dystopias put to film.
80
Empire
A resonant film which has a speudo-cult status as everyone has seen it late one night on TV and it's never left them.
80
Conjures up a terrifying vision of the future that is made all the more urgent by today's inflationary food prices and fast approaching energy crisis.
80
Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.
75
A good, solid science-fiction movie, and a little more.
