Classic Film Friday: Soylent Green

Ok, before I comment on the movie itself, I must say that Netflix is in some kind of agreement with the Starz network and a lot more movies are now available. Like Spiderman 3 for instance. We love the Roku, really, really love it.

Now to the review...

It has Charlton Heston in it, so with that said it's very much his movie. That's not to say anything bad about him, but he has a tendency to over act a little (in my opinion anyway). He plays a cop Robbert Thorn, in the future, (which isn't all that far off now), The future is haunted by over-population and in a sense "global warming", and basically everything is dead or dieing. I'm talking about Mother Nature, trees, wildlife, pretty much everything.

Thorn is covering a murder of a very peculiar nature. Basically they try to make it look like some punk off the street did it, but in reality it was an assassination of a very important man. 'Sol' Roth (Edward G. Robinson) is a police researcher (they didn't know about computers back then apparently) and he lives in the same apartment as Thorn. Sol is an old timer, and can remember better days. Thorn doesn't even know or understand what Sol is talking about.

Anyway there's a love interest Shirl (Leigh Taylor-Young) who also happens to be "furniture" of the deceased. And Sol winds up going to a government clinic, to help him "go home". All of this revolves around Soylent Green. A processed food, and Green is on Tuesday. (whatever that means) The movie does have Eight is Enough star Dick Van Patten, but he is a very minor player.

That's all I'm going to say about it, the rest you'll have to find out in this post apocalyptic sci-fi movie yourself.