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The plot Ironically hits close to home in this day and age.New York city,,,the year 2022.The city is very over populated. Most people wear mask like today. There is a great food shortage.Soylent Green (Soy beans/ Lentals) are rationed out to people like soup lines of the great depression. the secret Ingrediant is Humans. Case,artwork and DVD are all great condition.
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Set in a polluted, congested New York City in 2022, this sci-fi thriller stars Charlton Heston as Robert Thorn, a police detective looking into the murder of a corporate executive (Joseph Cotton) whose company makes a nutrious synthetic food called Soylent Green. But in the process of tracking down the killer of the executive, Thorn unearths shocking information about the product's ingredients. The cast also includes Edward G. Robinson (in his last film role) as a researcher that works with Thorn - who remembers the good days of earth and New York City-when food was real, and people were not crammed into spaces. Leigh-Taylor Young (Secret Admirer, Jagged Edge, Dallas Season 11, etc) co-stars as the girlfriend of the murdered executive. The director here is Richard Fleicher, (Tora, Tora, Tora, Conan the Destroyer, Red Soyna, Mr. Majestyk, etc) who has shown his durability by the many genres of movies he has worked on-and the fact that an notable percentage of them have been box-office hits. This is a great classic sci-fi thriller movie that most people will enjoy and it will give a good evenings entertainment to those that like the sci fi class of flixs. Definitely recommended if you like this type of movie.Read full review
Meat is meat, and we have to eat. Words expressed - but, not divulging - the full story. I remember seeing Soylent Green many years ago and pondering a future where our society could be forced to make such drastic decisions. This movie thrusts the viewer into a time when scarcity is commonplace and ordinary staples for our existence - a rarity. Charelton Heston portrays a futuristic cop in a world gone absent - from today's standards. Quite an alarming view of future conditions! This movie is a precursor to "Escape From New York". An entertaining sci-fi classic that makes you have deep thoughts.
Personally, I do not like Charlton Heston, but he gives a good performance in this somewhat clumsily made movie from the seventies. He is well supported by Edward G. Robinson, and Chuck Conners acts to the best of his abilty, if you know what I mean! Often the screenplay dwells for 30 seconds on a plot development that today would be established in 5 seconds, resulting in a rather shallow story line. What's there is good, there is just not enough of it, ending rather abruptly, with several unresolved issues. Of course, that may have been the intention - hinting that the ordinary man has no real influence on the briefly glimpsed plutocracy.
A movie remembered from a long time ago, just as good as first time I saw it. A part of Charlton Heston's, many timeless roles.
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