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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 8

  Never thought in my wildest dreams that this golden oldie would have the impact on me that it did! I was totally gobsmacked! The films underlying message is even MORE relevant today then it was back then!

  With various reports of animal species becoming extinct, dwindling natural resources and man's unquenchable greed and proclivity towards arrogance I found the film even more terrifying because there is no one to save us from ourselves!

  The late great Edward G. Robinson died 12 days after filming concluded, which makes his death bed scene even MORE powerful!

  A Sci-Fi Classic that is way ahead of its time and more than deserving of your time!

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  Review by Emma Stefansky 2

  chronically sweaty actor charlton heston has never looked sweatier

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  Review by adambolt ★★★

  if they come out with a new snack food this year i'm going to be very suspicious

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  Review by braden ★★★ 2

  “You've gotta tell them! You've gotta tell them!”

  Soylent Green has been one of those movies I’ve wanted to watch for so long but never had access to, and finally watching it I’m realising why it’s twist ending is more famous than the film itself. It has some great sci-fi concepts, but the film surrounding them feels largely insubstantial; lacking in personality with scenes that mostly feel like filler to pad out the length until the big finale, and although the ending revelation is cool it feels predictable and not nearly as impactive as it could’ve been. It’s the kind of thing that I think would definitely benefit from a modern remake, but for now its really just a few eminent moments shining through in an otherwise tedious movie.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★½ 7

  That’s it? Man, that was disappointing. There was too much hype for that “crazy twist,” and it was kinda meh. F—ed up if you think about it, but the way it was executed was just very poor. As it was, most of the movie, to be honest, has a really good premise and the cast is alright, but sadly, none of it matters if the direction leaves a lot to be desired. It starts strong with the whole mystery and setting up the whole world, though as someone who has already lived past 2022, this must be the least believable of “futuristic” dystopias ever. Like, did they really think those ugly a$$ TVs would live that long? And don’t get…

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  Review by DirkH ★★★ 5

  Me and Stevie G on a Sci Fi spree

  Even though the big reveal is practically common knowledge, Soylent Green is still an interesting stroll through a remarkably well fleshed out dystopian future.

  In Soylent Green the future is overcrowded and sticky. There is an oppressive heat director Fleischer manages to convey rather well. There is always a sense of being in a cramped space when we're with the protagonists, which is contrasted really well with simple pleasures that have become valuable commodities only available to the rich. The world building is one of the film's strongest assets, with the idea of the Exchange (a group of scholars tucked away like some living Wikipedia) being my favourite. The past is…

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★★★★ 6

  "Who the hell needs strawberries," he says, as he helps lay her down into a more amiable situation. For living in such terrible dystopia, the protagonist in this (Charlton Heston) does ok, with a cool job and banging many a willing hot wench. But there is a destructive nature to the man, he won't leave well enough alone, and it all comes tumbling down.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★

  Forms a pretty solid, miserably bleak Charlton Heston sci-fi dystopia trilogy with Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man, and though perhaps overshadowed by the legacy and even more iconic twist ending of the former this still very much holds up for me. Namely Fleischer’s structuring of this as a sweaty, conspiratorial procedural where a jaded detective (selfishly indulging himself of every meager pleasure left to be wrung out of our synthetic commercial food processing and environmental hellscape; vegetables, showers, and women mostly) is given a radicalizing front-row seat to the corporate cannibal machinery horror he helps serve and maintain.

  But also the strong visual focus on the lavish retro-future condos vs grimy, body-piling streets, militarized waste disposal production…

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★★ 3

  The June-ar Module

  The worst film of this project so far - and I really wasn't expecting it to be.

  Of course, everyone knows the ending to this film. Even though it's not exactly one of the most watched films of all time, the originality of the twist behind it, certainly for its time, has allowed it to attain a fair amount of attention for that fact. But I think the fact that it is attained very little attention for anything else here is very telling.

  It's half a silly sci-fi parable and half serious futuristic mystery and never do the two feel like they come together at all. It's filled with kitschy scenes that do feel fitting for the…

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  Review by Geoff T ★★★½ 7

  Richard Fleischer directed a shitload of films during his 40-year career, though one of the most popular of those was Soylent Green, a sci-fi mystery-thriller that gives us a deadly vision of the year 2022, where overpopulation, pollution and global warming have rendered the world in a near-unliveable state. Thankfully we're in the year 2018 and we're not quite close in those conditions yet, but anything is possible, right?

  Anyway, living conditions are dire, and the only source of food and energy is that provided by the Soylent Corporation. Soylent Red and Yellow are sadly no more, while Soylent Green is the new product on the block. That of course, is where Frank Thorn (Charlton Heston) comes in, an NYPD…

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★½ 4

  uhhhhh can I unwatch this please

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  Review by Chris Cabin ★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  A desperate, horny detective mostly abandons his job in post-apocalyptic America to get laid, take showers, sleep, and eat lettuce and hobo stew with his elderly research assistant and one of the chief suspects in the murder case he's working, whom he is also boning. He is then, of course, stunned to find out this horrible world can only go on as is through systemic executions, cannibalism, and ongoing suppression and oppression by the state against the people. The good times are fun and all, but I was wishing for a little bit more dread and layered uncovering to support the outlandishly bleak premise, a bit more time showing what is left of the old societal structures, and what has happened to its overseers and heralds. Fleischer, per usual, directs the shit out of this, and its mostly his decisions - and Edward G. Robinson - that really make the final 30 minutes sing.