Soylent Green (1973)
Bottomline: A pretty good movie from the early '70s. Do you know the secret of Soylent Green?
QMR Opinion: This was the second of my Charlton Heston, apocalyptic double feature – the other being The Omega Man (1971). The good news is that this film is much better than The Omega Man. The bad news is that the bar was set really, really low. The other piece of good news is that this movie stars all sorts of top-notch actors – Joseph Cotton (yes, really), Chuck Connors (yes, the Rifleman), Edward G. Robinson (yes, really), Brock Peters (yes, Tom Robinson), and Dick Van Patten (yes, Eight is Enough). Essentially, the plot runs something like this – because of over-population (New York has 40 million people in the future), global warming brought on by mass consumerism and the destruction of the environment brought on by pollution on a grand scale, the Soylent Corporation owns the world’s food supply. Well, thanks to the investigative skills of a hard-boiled detective like Chuck Heston, we now know what we’ll really be eating in the future – to go with the 70s fashions.
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