In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes from synthetics manufactured in local factories -- the dinner selections being a choice between Soylent Blue, Soylent Yellow, or the very popular and scarce Soylent Green. Meanwhile, a member of the board of directors of the Soylent Corporation is murdered and when the detective assigned the case isn't too busy stealing food or enjoying other luxuries belonging to the victim, he's investigating the crime.

A classic flick that many of you have heard of without realizing it, and one of the most entertaining dark future films out there, and by dark, I mean very dark. People starving to death in the streets, people so happy to have a taste of real food they burst into tears at the sight of it, sex-slaves and riots, and pretty day-glo food.

There were some problems, though. Most people weren't starving, they were just living on tasteless synthetic foods made from plankton and algae. Since many of them never had any real food, why do they miss it so much? I think Blade Runner's take on the same thing is a lot more realistic, the rich still enjoying tasty goodness, but the poor getting by. If you're starving than an apple might amaze and overwhelm you, but it seemed a bit much in this situation.

And there's just some really stupid ideas. So books and paper are extremely rare and highly sought after. Each cop builds his own personal collection of referance materials. That makes perfect sense in bizarro world, if books are hard to get, the police would share them in a big room filled with shelves. They might even call it a library.

Add to this certain people who were called "books" that maybe lived with each cop to research for them? I don't know, it's an odd idea no matter how you cut it, though.

The cops have a decent gig going, they investigate crimes against well-to-do people, and in exchange steal everything that isn't nailed down from their apartments. Luxuries like soap, a stalk of celery, oh and the 'furniture'.

Furniture is a name for a whore-slave that lives with you and in exchange for room and board, cooks and satisfies your needs. Called furniture because they often come with the apartment when you rent it, in the 50's they called them wives. I'm not sure which is more disturbing.

One more little complaint, the "scoops" they use on rioters, bulldozers. Ok, if a bulldozer scoops you up while you're trying to riot because the food banks are out of your favorite flavor, wait until the scooper is about 2 feet from the ground, then hop off. It sounds simple enough but in 2022 people just stand in it and wait to be dumped into the back of the truck, head first.

Like I said, this is a dark flick about a far more realistic future than Star Trek's going to show you. If you really think about it, you can really see a lot of reality in it. The rich are eating strawberries while the poorest starve on the steps of apartment buildings. That seems harsh, but while watching it I threw away half my veggie sub because it was mushy, the time it took me to eat the other half of the sandwich, 300 people died of starvation, 85% of them were children. The world is ugly, and so's this movie.

I know I haven't said the magic words that most of you have heard and that are a complete spoiler for this flick, if you don't know what I'm talking about, go rent this before some dipshit quotes it a ruins it for you.

7.5 out of 10 quotes almost as famous as "damn dirty ape!"