Review of Soylent Green (1973) by Gavin S — 04 Jul 2014

A Dystopian future (2022 - only 8yrs away! from a movie made 41 years ago!) where there's no food, due to environmental catastrophes. Enter Charlton Heston as Thorn, the police detective investigating the murder of a high ranking individual in the Soylent Company (the great Joseph Cotten) something is rotten, and Thorn, with his friend Sol (The legendary Edward G. Robinson in his final film role, is superb and lends a gravitas this would otherwise have been missing) dig deeper and find out the horrible secret behind Soylent Green. This is one of those semi-classics, which isn't quite as amazing as we hope it will be, but still is pretty cool, as old Sci-Fi Dystopian Future movies usually are. *SPOILERS*.

There is a death scene for Sol, and I can imagine it hit home at the time when Robinson died for real as well, a very peaceful, yet still sad end.