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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 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
Visually 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.
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Lucas described THX as 'an artifact from the future,' and we're supposed to struggle for understanding. That's part of its hypnotic undertow.
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Top CriticMuddled and hopelessly artsy, but at least Lucas got it out of his system early on.
The movie's strength is not in its story but in its unsettling and weirdly effective visual and sound style.
Top CriticA high concept window in on the direction George Lucas could have gone.
The most remarkable thing about THX 1138 is its unsettling sound design, pieced together by Lucas and Walter Murch.
It's an impressively unified vision, with sterile set design, a wonderfully crisp and creepy sound design by Walter Murch.
The problem with Lucas's story, though, is that after the first thirty minutes or so he rather runs out of story.
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A scrupulously crafted vision of benevolent oppressiveness, THX 1138 exudes a creamy hypnotism and resonates strongly.
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The thought put into the world of THX 1138 clearly shows a respect for the audience who crave to know more than just basic plot and character development.
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