Rotten
Uneven and slightly muddled futuristic horror story -- not really science fiction, more like an antipollution PSA gone berserk.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Soylent Green
It's the year 2022. People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need Soylent Green.
1973 · 1h 37m · PG
Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Richard Fleischer
Overview
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
Director and cast
- Richard Fleischer Director
- Charlton Heston as Detective Robert Thorn
- Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth
- Leigh Taylor-Young as Shirl
- Chuck Connors as Tab Fielding
- Joseph Cotten as William R. Simonson
- Brock Peters as Chief Hatcher
- Paula Kelly as Martha Phillips
- Stephen Young as Gilbert
- Mike Henry as Kulozik
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Their 21st-century New York occasionally is frightening but it is rarely convincingly real.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
Rotten
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.
Variety
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