I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

best movie i've ever seen.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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.

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...

I wish I had seen this in its entirety at the time it came out, a naive teen whose only expertise in science fiction was "Lost in Space". As far as futuristic voyages were concerned, all I knew in 1976 was that it was the bicentennial and that 2000 seemed several lifetimes away. Way past the age of 30 now, my life really began way past the age that they end here. I couldn't imagine having only 30 years to live my life, so the idea of a world run by adults under 30 who act more like children than children is a scary prospect indeed.It's the job of Michael York here to track down those who should have been terminated (referred to as runners), and in an ironic twist has him all of a sudden on the run himself thanks to an assignment to locate the 1200 plus who have managed to avoid capture and termination. He locates sanctuary and infiltrates his way in, falling in love with the understanding Jenny Agutter. Along the way, he encounters a young Farrah Fawcett, as well as the sweet old man (Peter Ustinov) who risks his life by accompanying York and Agutter back to the deadly underground city. What seems cruel in fact becomes an opening to theory, and in order to understand it all, you must look at it in the perspective of a film made 40 years ago. This goes way beyond the futuristic society's of " Fahrenheit 451" and "Soylent Green", and provides a glimpse into a dire future. With a huge set that looks like an art Deco mall and costumes straight out of Neverland, this is colorful and delightfully weird. In actuality, many of the supposedly under 30 characters look like they are way past 35.I look at this as a metaphor as to why society cannot infiltrate its way on the natural order of things, referred to as spiritualism back then, but with a sneer, referred to as extreme liberalism today. Some of the special effects and photography are cartoon like, and the music strangely sinister. I cannot look at this as dated, because compared to the artless and overly loud cynical doomsday films of the day, this actually has things of importance to say, unlike the ones of today which simply tell me to grab an aspirin.

I've always found Michael York a little spooky. I remember him from "Cabaret" and Zefferelli's "Romeo and Juliet," among other things. He is handsome but has an odd quality to him. In this film, he grows up in a society where people are living in a bubble. To sustain themselves, it was decided long ago that at thirty it was time for folks to die. It was also decided that there was no life outside the bubble. Logan (York) and Jenny Agutter come to realize that what appears to some to be a transition is actually an execution. They make their way to the other side, but things are not over yet. It becomes important to them to get the message back to their city to make people realize that there is a world where all could survive to old age if they were fortunate enough. What's a little hard to swallow is that a couple of renegades could wield so much power.