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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:39
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: George Lucas' feature debut presents a spare, bleak, dystopian future, and features evocatively minimal set design and creepy sound effects.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: In George Lucas's fascinating debut feature (based on his short student film), the filmmaking wunderkind creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, drone-like workers are forced to take... [More]
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie
Director: George Lucas
[Lucas' 1970 debut] not only gives obvious indications of his glittering future career but also works in its own right as a terrific bit of sci-fi entertainment, creating a palpable sense of tension in its view of s futuristic dystopia.
Top CriticVisually it is often extraordinary, with Lucas playing on perspectives and dislocations throughout, nowhere more brilliantly than in the 'prison' represented by a limbo of whiteness that seems to stretch as far as the eye can see.
Top CriticNeglected on its initial release, this now stands as a classic science fiction movie and one of the most remarkable debuts of the 70s.
Top Criticchilling and inventive
Muddled and hopelessly artsy, but at least Lucas got it out of his system early on.
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Top CriticMeditative and downbeat rather than crowd-pleasing, the film includes a few sequences that suggest the direction Lucas career later took.
Top CriticWith political paternalism rampant at both extremes of the spectrum, Lucas is onto something. In any case, we'll know for sure in about a generation.
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Lucas' vision of the future is disturbing. A wonderful first effort.
A scrupulously crafted vision of benevolent oppressiveness, THX 1138 exudes a creamy hypnotism and resonates strongly.
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an instant classic of dystopic angst
It's an impressively unified vision, with sterile set design, a wonderfully crisp and creepy sound design by Walter Murch.
A high concept window in on the direction George Lucas could have gone.
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The whole thing feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world.
Valuable in illustrating what stylish imagination without much cash can accomplish for starters, even in California.
For a film that warns about the dangers of consumerism, one can only wonder how many more times will Mr. Lucas force this lesser work of his upon an uncaring public before he lets the film slip back into obscurity.
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