Logan's Run (1976)
Genre: Scifi / Action
Duration: 119 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Stars: Michael York, Richard Jordan and Jenny Agutter
IMDb score:
6,8 (66.710)
Releasedate: 23 June 1976
Logan's Run plot
"The only thing you can’t have in Logan’s world is your 30th birthday. Unless you run away."
In the 23rd century, after a long period of war, overpopulation and pollution, the survivors live in a large domed city, hermetically sealed off from the forgotten outside world. In their ecologically balanced world everyone lives for their own pleasure and nobody has to work. However, at the thirtieth year of life, life ends unless one is reborn during the Carousel, a ritual with the promise of renewal. Those who refuse to undergo the ritual and decide to flee, called Runners, are relentlessly hunted and killed by the Sandmen. This elite police force also includes Logan (Michael York) and his friend Francis (Richard Jordan), two of the best.
Actors and actresses
Logan
Francis
Jessica
Holly
Old Man
2nd Sanctuary Man
The Woman Runner
Billy
Reviews & comments
arno74
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Nice SF movie that could fit in a Star Trek episode from that time. The film shows us a world where people are only allowed to live until the age of 30, we follow one of the guards (Logan) who is ordered to flee in order to find out where the people who manage to control the city and their fate end up. to flee. Nice, although I thought his escape attempt was so long that it got a bit boring, making the middle part the least. The film is fair with the title Logan's Run, that remains the main ingredient, although I would have liked to see it differently, and that could have been done by cutting half an hour off the middle part, two hours is on the long side. Quite nice for once. 2.5*
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Filmkriebel
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The Island (2005) has a bit of Logan's Run and departs from the same principles. A utopia where people lead a controlled and happy life until they are 30. Then they undergo a ritual, a kind of euphemism for "dying", to keep the population numbers up. Logan hunts down Runners, people who want to escape the ritual, to take them out. After that, it becomes clear that this perfect society also has some dark sides. The hero who wants to bring the truth to light is a typical motif that also crops up in The Island.
The first half was a lot of 70s kitsch and it looked dated and clumsy, especially the special effects, often consisting of scale models and miniatures. Later it turns out that the makers had done their best to create something beautiful with the techniques from that time. Once Logan and Jessica flee their world and reach a Washington in ruins I found the film at its strongest and you are watching a decent adventure film. I think Michael York is a weak actor who always disappoints me and I also noticed the weak dialogues, but it is a SF curio from 1976 that certainly deserves a viewing.
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blurp194
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Nice.
Maybe it's extra fun to see because of the 70s decoration - provided you look through the occasionally very clumsy effects. It is strange that it sometimes seems very beautiful, and sometimes so clumsy. Perhaps the makers looked at it differently then. Still, the design of the utopian resort is wonderful, the all-controlling computer with beeps is pure cult, and the overgrown outside world an - ahem - feast of recognition. At least, that's where I got the idea that I might have seen the film before - but how could that be, that I'd forgotten Agutter's beautiful short dresses.
The story also rattles a bit here and there - perhaps in an equally 70s-esque way, we looked at that a little differently at the time. Something about optimism, belief in a utopian future, something like that. Exactly fitting with the always smiling and always young appearance of Michael York, although he does not play such a amiable person here. It's easy to feel that Agutter doesn't like him at first. Although that is also somewhat weakly developed, and the characters they both play are quite flat.
But against all reasonableness - or so it seems now - the film, after all its weaknesses and budget overrun after budget overrun, was still a success in the cinema. And there has been talk of a remake for about ten years now - that can honestly not come soon enough for me, although I am curious who can follow in the footsteps of York and Agutter.
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