It is a performances centric movie

Good start, but then it gets ruined

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

People forget that this, coming out two years before Star Wars, was a big hit. Based on the book (and very different from it). Set in the future, Logan is a Sandman, who job it is to terminate those who won't accept a chance on Carousel, when their life is terminated at 30 years old. Michael York and Jenny Agutter are great as the main characters, Logan and Jessica, but Richard Jordan as the betrayed fellow Sandman, steals many scenes. A fine movie that is still worth seeing today.

I was in my twenties when I saw this film during its original release. I enjoyed it. As a fan of science fiction, I appreciated any attempt to bring science fiction to the big screen. But "Logan's Run" has not aged well over the intervening years.First of all, other science fiction films have had much more to say and better technical features. For example, "Blade Runner"--a film with some similarities, but a stronger message and much more technique and atmosphere. Compared to "Blade Runner"--which came only six years later, "Logan's Run" feels like it was shot in a warehouse for an industrial film. Likewise, "Soylent Green" and "Planet of the Apes" make "Logan's Run" look rather amateurish.Its special effects, in particular, are disappointing. But its message--whatever that might be--has much less impact than these other sci-fi films of that era.The portrayals of the two main characters, played by Michael York and Jenny Agutter, are rather flat. Perhaps they were confused by the ambiguous purpose of the plot, because they feel like they are walking through much of the film. The film is interesting to watch, as a product of its time, but there are many other sci-fi films that deserve greater attention.

I've always found Michael York a little spooky. I remember him from "Cabaret" and Zefferelli's "Romeo and Juliet," among other things. He is handsome but has an odd quality to him. In this film, he grows up in a society where people are living in a bubble. To sustain themselves, it was decided long ago that at thirty it was time for folks to die. It was also decided that there was no life outside the bubble. Logan (York) and Jenny Agutter come to realize that what appears to some to be a transition is actually an execution. They make their way to the other side, but things are not over yet. It becomes important to them to get the message back to their city to make people realize that there is a world where all could survive to old age if they were fortunate enough. What's a little hard to swallow is that a couple of renegades could wield so much power.

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