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Apr 28, 2012Monolith rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This film was fairly innovative for 1976, having been the first to use laser holography. That deserves credit, but unfortunately some of the other effects (dangling people with goalie masks and sparklers on "Last Day"; "Box", the clunky aluminum foil robot man with dryer vent-hose arms; the obviously noticeable fabricated model dome city with miniature railway cars; etc.) weren't so technologically advanced... The post-apocalyptic story is very imaginative, hopeful, uplifting. A hedonistic utopia controlled by a master computer. Nonconformists vs. lemmings naïvely willing to "renew" (die) at age 30. The dialogue is kinda cheezy, and there's no question it's the 70's - bra-less women with lots of eye shadow, and dudes with mullets, afros, and long sideburns. The musical score inside the city was a futuristic (circa 2274) sounding Moog synthesizer, and a full orchestra 'outside'. All tolled, the movie has a certain charm about it, and a deserving place in cinematic history.