Sick Product of a Sick System

Fantastic!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

People forget that this, coming out two years before Star Wars, was a big hit. Based on the book (and very different from it). Set in the future, Logan is a Sandman, who job it is to terminate those who won't accept a chance on Carousel, when their life is terminated at 30 years old. Michael York and Jenny Agutter are great as the main characters, Logan and Jessica, but Richard Jordan as the betrayed fellow Sandman, steals many scenes. A fine movie that is still worth seeing today.

Logan's Run is besides Soylent Green (1973) and Planet of the Apes (1968) one of my most favorite classic plays of the Dystopian genre.In an ideal society all people's life expectation is limited to 30 and when one reaches 30 he or she is bound to take part in a ceremony called Carousel in which one gets the chance of "renewal" - or termination. Some people try to escape that deadly circle and are called Runners, Michael York plays our hero who is a Sandman, his task: hunting and killing those Runners.Logan's Run is like the mentioned movies one of those movies that I still like to watch from time to time - Logan's Run a timeless classic. Some other recommendations for a younger audience regarding dystopian movies (old guys like me know them by heart):Outland (1981, Sean Connery) Zardoz (1974, Sean Connery again) Silent Running (1972) The Omega Man (1971) Rollerball (1975) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Westworld (1973) Dark Star (1974) Stalker (1979)Or check my list with more than 1k of dystopian and apocalyptic movies: Dystopia & Apocalyptica: The Downfall of Man

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...

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.