Logan's Run (1976)

The world is a gaudy, cheapass dystopia—every era of the shopping mall collapsed into a plastic singularity. Sadly, after a strong start the narrative turns into a boilerplate heteronormative conservative “return to the land” repudiation of consumerism with poorly-written women and unconvincing romance. What's left, then? I liked how ambiguous the anti-heroic protagonist starts; the later Outside scenes; the fun practical effects; the conviction that ageing is better than death; and the confounding industrial liminal spaces. It just doesn't quite reach the bizarritude of Zardoz (1974) and instead hews closer to Rollerball (1975): overstretched and underdone.