Silent Running

...more relevant today than it was back in 1972

Douglas Trumball's Silent Running is a flawed classic, but that still makes it a classic.

The production lacks much dramatic credibility and often teeters on the edge of the ludicrous.

The film is enjoyable for its intimacy, seriousness, and intelligent character work, virtues not perpetuated by the subsequent new wave.

A wonderful film.

Silent Running is no jerry-built science fiction film, but it's a little too simple-minded to be consistently entertaining.

It is brilliantly illustrated but the storyline and dramatic structure are fatally weak.

rumbull makes the colour and detail of the simple, exquisite things in that garden—its lush green foliage for instance, and the oranges, yellows and pinks of flowers—pop and glow by contrasting them against the vast black emptiness of space

It’s a sardonic, eventually grisly fable of a rich, powerful clan whose despoiling of the pristine countryside draws a visitor in disguise delivering vengeance on behalf of Mother Nature herself.

...a sombre, often pompous story, but it's also got offbeat charm...