SunnyHello Nice effects though.

ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Scott LeBrun In the future, post-holocaust Earth of the year 2274, human beings live in enormous domed cities. They're not allowed to live past age 30; at that age they must submit to a bizarre experience dubbed "Carrousel", which might allow them to be "reborn" if they're lucky. Michael York plays Logan, a "Sandman" whose job it is to hunt down "runners", who are people pushing 30 who are trying to flee the inevitable. Logan is sent on a mission to find a Sanctuary that supposedly harbours Runners, but when everything goes wrong, he and a new acquaintance named Jessica (the ravishing Jenny Agutter) go on the lam.For its first hour or so, "Logan's Run" is a wonderful 70s trip. It pulls you right in with a real candy store of futuristic images. Obviously MGM spared no expense in making this picture. It's quite captivating, and holds your interest for a while. It's got some very alluring outfits for Agutter; in general, the costumes designed by Bill Thomas are impressive. The action scenes are well done, and there is some fairly shocking (but not THAT gory) violence for a PG rated film.Then the oppressive atmosphere gives way to a whole second act that is, comparatively speaking, on the boring side, as Logan and Jessica see what life is REALLY is like outside the dome, encountering a senile old man, played to the hammy hilt by Peter Ustinov. This whole portion is not completely without interest, as Logan and Jessica are awakened to a totally different kind of existence (for example, one in which children actually know their parents). Things pick up again once Logans' former friend Francis (Richard Jordan) re-enters the story.On the whole, this is an appealing saga, one that attempts to appeal to adult intellects as well as dazzling them with special effects and production design. The performances are basically fine; also appearing are Roscoe Lee Browne as a clunky looking robot named "Box" and Farrah Fawcett. That's director Michael Andersons' son Michael Jr. as the character "Doc".Best of all is the wondrous score by ever-reliable Jerry Goldsmith, which uses electronic noises just as much as any orchestra.Followed by a short-lived TV series.Seven out of 10.

poe-48833 In Richard Matheson's short story "THE TEST," an Elderly man prepares himself for an upcoming test to determine if he should live or die. (One can't help but be reminded of another classic Tale of Time's Up, Sorry- Shirley Jackson's "THE LOTTERY.") LOGAN'S RUN takes the essence of that idea and "runs" with it. The result is a Feature film more in keeping with a television show (which it ironically became) than a Big Screen extravaganza. Some of the IDEAS put forth in LOGAN'S RUN are worthy of exploration (and some are NOT), but it's the execution, if you will, that one finds lacking. The movie's just BLAND. With THE HANDMAIDEN'S TALE making a successful comeback (as a cable series, I've heard), maybe it's time to rethink LOGAN'S RUN...

Mr-Fusion It occurred to me very late in the running time of "Logan's Run" that I wasn't enjoying the movie's story, themes or dystopian vision so much as the visuals. Not just the feminine beauty of Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Jenny Agutter, but also the imagination in the world being shown. They used locations with the glossy sheen and angular architecture of shopping malls and convention centers (which I do like, especially back in the '70s). But the production design in those places was impressive; very much of that time and attitude. And eventually we get to the foliage-overgrown D.C. which itself is a good image. It's not lost on me that I appreciated this superficially, just as its society vacuously prized attractive youth over middle age.And as a movie, it's entertaining, but doesn't get going until the second half when York and Agutter start running. In some ways, it felt influenced by "Planet of the Apes", but was never as good. Don't get me wrong, this is a good movie in a junk food sort of way. A little empty. But like I said, it's a '70s sugary treat for the eyes.6/10

Tss5078 Science Fiction is inherently strange, and it seems like the further back you go, the stranger the movies are, perhaps none stranger than Logan's Run. This film is considered by many to be the one of the best science fiction films of all time, so I decide to watch it for the most recent classics review. My first impression, I've seen weird before, but Logan's Run goes way beyond that, to a point of incomprehensible. After a nuclear war, a group of citizens in what was once Washington D.C., live in a self-sustained domed city. Population control is a big problem, so the builders of the city have convinced the citizen's that at the age of 30, they must enter a device known as carrousel, which will decide if they should be renewed or eliminated, the only thing is, no one has ever been renewed. A group of citizens has figured this out and run from carrousel. They are hunted by a group of officers known as sandmen. Logan 5 (Michael York) is one these sandmen, who goes undercover to try to infiltrate the runners, As his time comes closer, Logan 5 realizes they're right and he joins them, hence the name Logan's Run. The premise here is ingenious and at first I thought I'd enjoy this film, but as it went on, the pace slowed, the quality deteriorated, and the story became ridiculous. For example, after exiting the cave, the worst looking robot I've ever seen, named Box, who looks like a child wearing a box, carries on for fifteen minutes about plankton from the sea, and at that point I almost turned it off. Michael York, better know from his Austin Powers fame, stars and is actually very good, (even though it is never explained why this British guy is in a D.C. city, surrounded by Americans). York was entertaining but the rest of the cast was not, in particular Jenny Agutter, who just complained and carried on the whole time. Farrah Fawcett also makes an appears in the film, in a role that amounts to little more than eye candy. In my opinion, she would have made a much more convincing Jessica. Logan's Run starts out as a terrific futuristic adventure and looks like it's going to earn every bit of acclaim it received, but as the film progresses, it just gets worse and worse to the point of being unwatchable.