In the year 2274, after the world has been decimated by a holocaust, a new society is built and resides in a domed city. However, it is forbidden for humans to live beyond 30 and you are given two choices, either to go through a ritual called Carousel with the promise of being "renewed", or go on the run and risk being hunted down by an elite police force known as Sandmen. Logan 5 is just such a man, and when he and his partner Francis 7 find and kill a runner, Logan takes an ankh symbol which identifies a person as a runner. When the computers of the city find out that Logan is in possession of the amulet, they order him to go undercover and find Sanctuary, the place where all the runners go to live out the rest of their lives. To ensure this, the computer adds four years to the time crystal on his palm to make it appear that he is on the verge of turning 30. Logan then meets up with Jessica 6, a member of the underground group that helps runners escape to Sanctuary. Logan then begins to run, but in the process realizes that there is much to live for and that he is just entering the prime of his life. It is 2274. Some type of holocaust has decimated the earth, and the survivors sealed themselves into a domed city near Washington, D.C. To maintain the population balance, the computers that run the city have decreed that all people must die at 30. This system is enforced by "sandmen" : black-clad police operatives who terminate (kill) "runners" (those who attempt to live beyond 30). Logan, a sandman, is sent on a mission to find "sanctuary," which is a code- word used by the master computer to describe what it believes is a place to which runners have been escaping. Logan begins to question the system he serves and after seeing for himself that there is life beyond the dome, he returns to destroy the computer. Probably quite daring for its time - with the idea of genocide at the onset of middle-age - today, it largely resembles a montage of Jerry Anderson out-takes.<br/><br/>Set in the future and starring Micheal York as the most implausible assassin ever screened, we find 'Sandmen' - of which York is one - as human terminators in a totalitarian state. Their job is to hunt down anybody who wants to go on living beyond what's due. And there's no messing about; they just blow miscreants away regardless of the damage they cause or the risk posed to other citizens. The indiscriminate hunting is at complete variance with the passivity of society as a whole and the comparative harmlessness of the crime. For me; it just doesn't mesh. It's like a very camp 'Blade Runner'. Micheal York minces daintily through his role with all the credibility of a ballerina attempting to be a lumberjack.<br/><br/>Things are dandy for a while until some Great Brain decides to send him undercover and infiltrate a band of fugitive runners. To this end, it advances his effective age until he has no choice but to go on the run himself or be culled.<br/><br/>Jenny Agutter, serving as his flesh-furniture (lucky swine), is - in truth - a supporter of this renegade group and reticently agrees to assist him in his cause. They both go on the run.<br/><br/>From here on it gets dafter by the minute. They find themselves in all manner of scrapes, including a frozen world where runners are all encased in corridors of ice and some bizarre robot with reality issues - probably brought about by its premature expulsion from drama school - tries to kill them, but buries itself under an avalanche instead.<br/><br/>Eventually, the dithering duo escape to an outside world, which is exclusively populated by Peter Ustinov and a load of cats, who appear to subsist together upon nothing more nutritious than old books.<br/><br/>The Great Brain thing is shorted-out and the Bump-'em-off-by-thirty regime overthrown. So everyone gets to grow old. And good luck to 'em, I say; it ain't that much fun! I'd readily trade some time for a tumble or two with Ms Innocence. In fact my conscience wouldn't have been too troubled to whisk up her skirts in 'The Railway Children'.<br/><br/>There are a few - a very few - interesting set-pieces and sci-fi gadget props. Some of them look as if they've been dusted-off from an old puppet series called 'Space Patrol', but otherwise the whole production is as insipid as it sounds here. Most blokes watch this movie to see Pretty Jenny - every younger brother's incest fantasy - strutting about in a filmy nothing, and hope for an unedited breeze. The ladies? Dunno what they see in it. A young Farrar Fawcett makes her challenge for top candy (no contest) and one or two other B-listers bank an easy paycheque.<br/><br/>If you've had a bad cold recently; you may find it more rewarding to pick your nose instead of watching this piffle. Unless of course you're a Jenny Agutter fan. And what bloke isn't? This was the coolest movie in the world, in 1976. Unfortunately, it was the last of its kind … the last big science fiction epic before George Lucas changed the face of that genre on film.<br/><br/>Michael York and Jenny Agutter are good in their roles (I've always though jenny was a hottie anyway <grin>), and the story is interesting, but as somebody else pointed out, it all looks WAY too 1976, in the same way that the Buck Rogers television show from the same era remains a relic of that era, rather than a "glimpse of the future."<br/><br/>One of the big selling points of this movie when it came out was that Farrah Fawcett-Majors was in it … she had just become popular at the time the movie was released, and had filmed it when she had still been pretty obscure. If the movie had been filmed six months later, I don't doubt that she would have been chosen to play Jessica (the female lead). In fact, though, Farrah just has a bit part; maybe five lines, and she's onscreen for just a few minutes.<br/><br/>There's really no reason to see this movie unless (a) you like campy movies, or (b) you saw it when it was originally released and want to see it again for the nostalgia factor.<br/><br/>In the original book, people were allowed to live to age 21; in the movie, the age was changed to 30 (presumably to accommodate the stars chosen for the roles). There is talk now of remaking this movie, and sticking to the book's original age limit. Could be interesting!<br/><br/>But as for this particular cheezfest, it's worth a miss. Hit-and-miss. Yes, by authors William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, published in 1967 Many. One is the age limit before Lastday/Sleep: 21. Logan works for Deep Sleep and his palm flower is grey and about to start blinking red/black as the story begins in 2116. Armed Sandmen are the primary enforcers armed with guns loaded with multipurpose rounds from Tanglers to Vapor to Homers to Nitro to Rippers to Incinerating Blister charges. Guns (6 shooters resembling Colt Peacemakers) are kept under palm flower lock at DS headquarters. "Doyle 10's" palm flower color sequence: Yellow = child; Blue = age 7-14; Red = age 14-21. "Jessica 6" is the sibling of "Doyle 10," first hunt of Logan's work shift. "Doyle 10" is killed by amped up feral "cubscouts" in the jungle called Cathedral. His last word is "sanctuary," and "Lilith 4's" key falls out of his clenched hand for Logan to collect. Tobacco is a controlled substance(!). A Risky night film camera (Peep) voyeur mission with Lilith 4 leads to a kind of underground railroad to Sanctuary. Logan's gun tips off Doc and Holly 13 to the presence of a Sandman. Doc and Logan's fight to the death occurs after the New You surgical table self destructs. After Holly 13's suicide, Logan finds a half-awake "Jessica 6" in another New You room. With maze car key in hand, Jessica and Logan begin their journey to Sanctuary, which ends at Cathedral. They meet Mary-Mary 2, who hands them a key and tells them to use it…soon. Jessica sums up doubts about nursery practices that led her to seek out information about Sanctuary. After the battle with the cubscouts, Logan and Jessica take a maze car to an undersea city. Having used his gun, Logan's Sandman status sparks heated arguments with Jessica, as her palm flower turns black. In a panic, Jessica runs through the complex, crashing into a door release. Her struggles to open it are halted by a harpoon hurled by the mutant, Whale. Disarming Logan, Whale leads the two runners through "Molly's" crumbling compartments. Logan is left in a compartment with a failing wall, while Whale advises Jessica on the next part of the journey to Sanctuary. Jessica rescues Logan, and they take the next maze car. An electrical fault sends them to an icy North Pole prison facility called Hell, where the Warden outlines the rules of survival. After the death battle with Harry 7, Jessica and Logan hear of Box, and decide to brave the Arctic wilderness. After falling into exhausted sleep on the ice, Jessica and Logan wake to find the seal-oil-smoky lair of Box. In his ice sculpture studio, Box invites the pair to pose for him, to be immortalized in ice forever. Logan demands that Box tell them how to leave Hell before they pose for him. After the session, Box knocks Logan unconscious and puts him into an ice cage, then, using ice chains, sets Jessica on an ice slab and suggests that she beg for her life before an ice block crushes her. Logan breaks out of the cage, fences with Box, burying the man machine in a pile of his ice creations. Following Box's singsong directions, Logan and Jessica find themselves on the undersea city maze car platform. (There is more, but stopping at page 67 of 148 is quite enough.)Yes, but in 1967 terms. Ballard, a shadowy figure in the book, has ALL the answers. a5c7b9f00b My Life as a Teenage Robot malayalam full movie free downloadtamil movie dubbed in hindi free download One Fine SundayI Love Kuduro full movie 720p downloadMafia III movie download in hdEpisode 2.19 download torrentSaving for the Day download moviestamil movie Reconveyance: Scene 49, What Child Is This free downloaddownload full movie Ruined in hindihindi The NeighborhoodAssassin's Creed: Embers full movie in hindi 1080p download
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