Logan's Run

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Year:	1976
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Michael Anderson
Genre:	Idealistic sci-fi
Starring:	Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/
Tagline:	Welcome to the 23rd Century
Favourite line:	"You're beautiful. Let's have sex."

You know, sometimes the memory deceives and, sometimes, it's best to leave things simply as that: memories.
So it is with this movie.
Fond recollections have been shattered, blissful thoughts of halcyon summer days spent frolicking by the riverside, BMXing, and watching Logan's Run.
I'm a broken man, disappointed and disillusioned.
Next people will be telling me that 'Echoes of a Summer' isn't any good either.

The plot:
Logan is a Sandman, a member of an elite force whose task is to seek and destroy any Runners.
But why are people running you might ask.
Well, because in this idyllic futuristic world people want for nothing, all their comforts and desires are sated but there is a cost - they must all die at the age of thirty by means of The Carousel, a strange, kaleidoscopic disco dance floor in which people float up towards the heavens, only to be obliterated.
The promise - those that make it through The Carousel will reach paradise.
But it's all a lie. A damn lie, I tells you.
Logan is approaching his 26th birthday when he is punished for a misdemewanor, and loses four of his years, meaning he's only got a little time left, so he decides to do a runner with the scrumptuous Jenny Agutter in tow, and who can blame him.
But they must pass through the ice caves, and the dangers within before reaching ther outside world.

It's a neat premise, and is stylishly filmed but, and this is the problem, once we reach the outside world the movie becomes paralysingly slow, half an hour too long, even if much of that time is spent watching Jenny cavorting naked in a lake.
The visuals are stunning however, reminding me, in tone anyway, of a cross between the first Superman movie and Star Trek - The Motion Picture.
It's a proper sci-fi movie, granted, but I just wish they'd ended it before it ground to a halt.
Disappointed.