Logan's Run details
| Formats: | 12 DVD, LOVEFiLM Instant |
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| Starring: | Peter Ustinov, Michael York, Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne |
| Director: | Michael Anderson |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure - Romantic, Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Thriller |
| Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Collections: | All Time Classics, Award Nominees & Winners, Award Winners, Award Winners & Nominees, Dark Futures, Decades: 70s, Eight Decades of Film, Futuristic Films |
| Title | Runtime | Certificate | |
|---|---|---|---|
Logan's Run |
1hr 53 mins | 12 |
LOVEFiLM Instant Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 53 minutes |
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| Rental release: | To be confirmed |
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Well worth a View.
By Nick Russell from Surrey, UK , 03 Apr 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
Science fiction is not everyone’s cup of tea, but you should be watching this one. I hunted down a DVD from USA as you can't get it hear in the UK. It is a classic film, way ahead of it's time in direction. The book continues beyond where the film ends, but having a 2-hour film in 1976 was an achievement in its self. Not to give too much away if you haven't seen it, it is a journey into the beyond of the cities residents beliefs, not really science fiction, but life in the future, that has become very controlled. The characters find out what life is like outside of the cities boundaries and that it does in fact exist. A superb performance from all, but especially from Peter Ustinov.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(55)A great concept that falls apart
By tompagenet (4 reviews) , 19 Feb 2012Mark Kermode got it right - by all means watch this; it has moments of intelligent science fiction, but skip the last half-hour where it deteriorates into sappy nonsense. As soon as Peter Ustinov appears the film takes an impressive nose dive.
The concept is interesting and some of the early part of the film's execution is good, even if the presentation looks a bit dated by today's standards. It is worth a watch, but the film can't be highly scored - as a whole package it fails badly and loses its way enough to undermine earlier good.
Incidentally the watch online transfer is very poor - you're better off watching on DVD.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Cult classic
By PigTheStig (1 review) , 15 Feb 2012This is a cult classic and as such its not every bodies cup of tea. I love this kind of film, so I give it a 5.- Was this review helpful to you?
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It is the way it is because it is the way it is!
By booanddandanlovedogs (12 reviews) from Warrington , 21 Jan 2012Its sort of worth watching, but only if you do dont expect anything to be explained at the end because it just isnt. I dont know if there was more detail in the book, but the film gave the impression that the writer hadnt decided why things were the way they were.- Was this review helpful to you?
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"You're better off taking your chances in carrousel!"
By mickyginger (1 review) , 16 Nov 2011Typically what you'd expect from 1970s sci-fi. In the same vein as Barbarella and Battlestar Galactica. Although it won an Oscar for its special effects, they have not stood the test of time. Having said that its very iconic, which is probably why it got parodied on Family Guy.
It's more fun because its so dated. The guns that the sandmen use are hilarious, as is the 'Love Shop'. There's also a senile mechanoid who is not hugely dissimilar to the robot from Lost In Space.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not a classic film of the 70s
By areelillmind (2 reviews) , 31 Oct 2011The 70's produced some classic science fiction, but this simply isn't one of them. I haven't read the novel, and it may be that it is superior to the film, I hope so.
Soylent Green, Rollerball, the Polish film 'Sex Mission' and even Woody Allen's 'Sleeper' all preceded this and dealt with the themes better so Logan's Run was tired and unoriginal even its day.
The costumes were not so much designed as borrowed from Abba. The earnest, sparse dialogue is perhaps an interpretation of the unnatural alienation of the 23rd century, or perhaps just bad acting.
I find distopias fascinating, and I really wanted to like this film, but it just wallows in it's own crass idiocy: the characters wander into soaking wet clothes into a frozen tundra, yet do not seem to suffer the cold at all, except as a chance for a flash of nudity to get into furs.
I imagine the director aspired to be a European auteur, and lays on heavy handed and cliched symbolism to show his intellectual credentials.
On the plus side, the cinematography by Academy Award winner Ernest Laszio is masterful and the set design is great though again not particularly original (the same white interiors and crystals used in nearly all 60's and 70's science fiction).- Was this review helpful to you?
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