In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
Uneven and slightly muddled futuristic horror story -- not really science fiction, more like an antipollution PSA gone berserk.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
5 Jun 2007
fresh:
Good, solid stuff, assembled efficiently enough to be pretty persuasive.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
Their 21st-century New York occasionally is frightening but it is rarely convincingly real.
– A.H. Weiler,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
The somewhat plausible and proximate horrors in the story of Soylent Green carry the production over its awkward spots to the status of a good futuristic exploitation film.