Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Danny Blankenship
"Logan's Run" is one of those movies that's clearly different it tries to make a bold statement and true it was a little bit ahead of it's time. And true it's no "Star Wars" yet it entertains and has the themes of dread trapped doom and hope for escape written all over it with a totalitarian and authoritarian rule all about it. Set in the year 2274 humans live in a much different type of city world one that is bubbled and sheltered in. With computerized service and mechanisms ruling it's a land of ever on going confusing and hedonism. Only when "Lastday" arrives all those at the age of 30 must submit to "Carrousel" a spinning trip to death and then a rebirth of new life! Really a sci-fi kickoff of fun, journey and escape you will cheer for Michael York as a "Sandman" who's trying to terminate the "Runners" on the prowl and "Logan" is almost 30 so the film is a try and catch type! Overall good watch to pass time it's a different blended type of sci-fi film and also look for the now late Farrah Fawcett in one of her first and very early roles.
Mr-Fusion
It occurred to me very late in the running time of "Logan's Run" that I wasn't enjoying the movie's story, themes or dystopian vision so much as the visuals. Not just the feminine beauty of Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Jenny Agutter, but also the imagination in the world being shown. They used locations with the glossy sheen and angular architecture of shopping malls and convention centers (which I do like, especially back in the '70s). But the production design in those places was impressive; very much of that time and attitude. And eventually we get to the foliage-overgrown D.C. which itself is a good image. It's not lost on me that I appreciated this superficially, just as its society vacuously prized attractive youth over middle age.And as a movie, it's entertaining, but doesn't get going until the second half when York and Agutter start running. In some ways, it felt influenced by "Planet of the Apes", but was never as good. Don't get me wrong, this is a good movie in a junk food sort of way. A little empty. But like I said, it's a '70s sugary treat for the eyes.6/10
Tss5078
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.
bkoganbing
Logan's Run details a futuristic society that has developed after an atomic war where people live in a large dome which we learn is on the eastern seaboard of the old USA. People look happy and healthy, but none of them are old. Reason being is that those over 30 are killed and in a nice elaborate ceremony called Carousel. That has to be seen to be believed. Naturally there are some that object to being killed and they run. When they do run, the government sends out people like Michael York and Richard Jordan to discourage that.The government errs big time though when they send Michael York out on a mission to pretend he's a runner in order to seek out and destroy some mythical society where escapees have gone called Sanctuary. York makes his run and when he teams up with a real runner in Jenny Agutter he makes it real and Jordan his erstwhile friend goes after the both of them.Some interesting concepts about the value of age and wisdom are dealt with her. Especially when York and Agutter meet up with Peter Ustinov who is the first old person they've ever met. Wait till you see where Ustinov has lived as a hermit in a world that seems to have healed itself from the ravages of atomic war.Jordan has an interesting performance as a true believer in the society that has evolved and there is the first notice of Farrah Fawcett the 70s it girl as one who has reached her allotted time.Logan's Run won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for Oscars in cinematography and art and set direction. It holds up pretty well for the new century. We may well ask the question is this the direction we are heading in.
