70's Month - Day: 20 Logan's Run

Well, we're twenty days into 70's Month, and today's movie is the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter. 

 The film opens with the text "Sometime in the 23rd century... the survivors of war, overpopulation, and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here in the ecologically balanced world, mankind lives only for pleasure, freed by the servo-mechanisms which provide everything. There's just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of carrousel" and it is a interesting setup for the story. Our main character Logan (played by Michael York) is a policemen known as a "Sandman", who's job is to pursue and kill anyone who tries to escape being "renewed" at the carrousel (ironic because in real life York was in his mid 30's when this film was released). Early on, Logan is given a mission by a computer to locate and destroy a Runner sanctuary outside of the city, forcing Logan to become a Runner himself. Alongside Logan, and aiding in his escape form the dome, is a runner named Jessica (played by Jenny Agutter) It isn't long after escaping the dome that the truth is revealed when Logan and Jessica discover that, although the sanctuary is a myth, there is an old man living outside the city, proving that the carrousel renewal is a lie, people can live past 30 and exist outside the dome.   

Although I think Logan's Run is a fun and entertaining movie I wouldn't necessarily call it a really good one. I like Michael York a lot as an actor but this probably isn't his best performance, and I'd say the acting in general in this movie hovers between good and good enough. The film did win a special Academy Award for visual effects, but most of those effects have not stood the test of time and some are even laughably bad. 

I give this one a 2.5 out of 5.