Logan's Run is less interested in logic than in gadgets and spectacle, but these are sometimes jazzily effective and even poetic. Had more attention been paid to the screenplay, the movie might have been a stunner.
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IGN
IGN
Taken for what it is, Logan's Run delivers a fun ride and a glimpse at another era, even if it's probably not the time frame the producers had in mind.
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EmpireIan Nathan
EmpireIan Nathan
A sci-fi which balances big themes and claustrophobic action with apparent ease.
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TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
Hit-and-miss.
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NewsweekJack Kroll
NewsweekJack Kroll
Since this isn't one of your deep-think sci-fi movies, you look for the happy hardware to get you kicks. [4 July 1976, p.102]
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Time Out
Time Out
The lavish production has some good effects sequences, but its plot is as corny as the dreadful lurex drape costumes and Jerry Goldsmith's slushy score. Fundamentally, this is just further proof of Hollywood's untiring ability to reduce all science fiction to its most feeble stereotypes.
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Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
A numbing combination of sloppy writing, vulgar art direction, high school acting, and bungled special effects—in short, par for the course for venerable hack Michael Anderson.