Soylent Green Reviews

“It’s not so bad.” Thorn
“Tasteless, odorless crud!” Sol

This is a classic sci-fi movie from the 1970s that still holds its mystique today.

Set in New York City in the year 2022, Soylent Green is a scary look at Earth’s possible future. Forty million people populate New York City which sits under a perpetual heat wave with greenish smog, a curfew, armed men guarding tenement stairwells.

Charlton Heston, as Detective Thorn, NYPD, is assigned to investigate the murder of one of the Directors of the Soylent Corporation, the leading food supplier of the...

Despite the 70's feel, 'Soylent Green' holds up well for today's adult audience. Not for the faint of heart, this film is gritty and disturbing.

Life is miserable in the year 2022. Food, fuel, and water are scarce and it is unbearably hot because of the greenhouse effect. Pollution has destroyed the earth's crops and most animals but there are plenty of people left. New York city has 400,000,000 people in it and more than half of them are unemployed. There's not enough food, water, or housing to go around. A yellow smog coats the filthy city. The government encourages and sponsors widespread euthanasia...

I have watched this movie numerous times and it still gets to me. I was a teenager the first time I saw it and it creeped me out badly. The thought of eating humans made me physically ill.  Since then I have come to see eating animals in the same way. Eating the flesh of a living, feeling being still bothers me

I did like the thought of being able to choose when to die and being able to watch something beautiful as you slid slowly into the next life.

The difference between the haves and have nots holds true to these days. I see how differently people live and it makes me sad to think that the things...

Seeing this film for the second time after 30 years, it is not only still relevant but closer to the truth than sci-fi. Bold for its time, since the protagonist choses death over what is tantamount to cannibalism, it was accepted and not reviled by zealots.