I'd seen this thing several times in a theater when I was thirteen or fourteen. I found the nudity disappointing and was more interested in the guys shooting people with futuristic guns. But that was disappointing, too, because they were such terrible shots. Plus they were just murdering people and not shooting it out.
Mostly takes place in a large domed city. Filmed in an unused shopping mall. Escalator technology hadn't advanced at all over the centuries.
It really wasn't bad. Michael York plays a "Sandman" whose job it is to kill "runners" who try to escape being euthanized at age thirty. They're told they'll be reborn, but not everyone is buying it. He joins Jenny Agutter in the resistance.
I suppose it could be seen as a sort of an anti-vaxxer allegory. People blindly believe what they're told, that they'll be renewed and those who see through the lies are clearly the heroes. The ecological disaster that caused this whole thing cleared up by itself, but from the point of view of the giant lying computer running the place, anyone who wants to live past thirty was wrecking it for everybody else.
In fairness, overpopulation would obviously be a serious problem in a domed city.
Based on a 1967 novel.
With Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan and Farrah Fawcett.
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