'Logan's Run' is less interested in logic than in gadgets and spectacle, but these are sometimes jazzily effective and even poetic. 'Logan's Run,' written by David Zelag Goodman and directed by Michael Anderson, is the story of one of the city's policemen, a man named Logan (Michael York), who himself becomes one of the 'runners' who had earlier been his quarry.Just why and for what particular purpose Logan makes his run is anything but clear after you've sat through nearly two hours of this stuff. A lot of people aren't convinced that the carousel actually renews them, and they try to run away to escape execution.

At age 30 each citizen goes through 'the ritual of the carousel,' thus to be reborn in a spectacular display of levitation and laser beams, though it's just a fancy way of executing the old-timers and getting rid of the ashes.If you know your science fiction at all, you know that no perfect world of the future is perfect.

Everything is ruled by a computer, including the weather. It is the dubious premise of 'Logan's Run,' the science-fiction fantasy that opened yesterday, that by the middle of the 23d century overpopulation and air pollution will have rendered life on the surface of this planet impossible and that the strictly controlled, drastically reduced number of survivors will live near Washington in a city that sort cf looks like the Houston Astrodome on the outside but inside is a Hollywood special-effects expert's dream.Within this huge bubble life is simple, automatic and perfect.

Logan's Run by William F. Nolan