Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Charlton HestonDetective Robert Thorn
- Leigh Taylor-YoungShirl
- Chuck ConnorsTab Fielding
- Joseph CottenWilliam R. Simonson
- Brock PetersChief Hatcher
- Paula KellyMartha Phillips
- Edward G. RobinsonSol Roth
- Stephen YoungGilbert
- Mike HenryKulozik
- Lincoln KilpatrickThe Priest
Recommendations
- 83
The A.V. Club
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
The Hollywood Reporter
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
Time Out
Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
A good, solid science-fiction movie, and a little more. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Richard Fleischer’s dystopian thriller set in an overpopulated, famine-stricken 2022 New York is a wonderfully silly slice of future schlock, featuring some of Heston’s zestiest overacting. - 75
Rolling Stone
The overall tone is one of melancholy rather than sci-fi wonder, and the film's cynicism is hard to shake. - 63
Slant Magazine
The film strikes a poignant chord with its chilling portrayal of a state-sponsored euthanasia program that utilizes movie-watching as a narcotic designed to help the sick and elderly die peacefully.
