I suppose modern cinema, technology, and the wonders of CGI has spoiled me; this is the second mid-1970's I've watched in the past couple days and it's just almost hard to sit through even a relatively short hour-and-a-half-long film that's this bad by today's standards. The acting was atrocious, the dialogue ridiculous, the storyline itself was so thin you could see the conclusion as early as 20 minutes into the film…and then it's wait another 110 minutes to plod through this awful thing. Not only that, the "conclusion" (that was supposed to be so shocking) was shouted at in one sentence at the very end of the movie. Very anticlimactic, one would think. It might have had more effect if…well, no...scratch that. I don't think there's any saving that conclusion; in fact, by today's standards, there's no saving this film AT ALL. This might have had some impact in 1973, when it was release but as I told someone, _"When a futuristic movie starts out with the opening scene reading_ **The Year: 2022** _you can't expect it to be all that great."_ (Hint: We're a year past "the future" already.) The "fight" scenes might have been laughable had they not been expected to be believable but these were like something out of the old 1960's "Batman" TV show...only worse. There was absolutely nothing dramatic, redeeming, or socially enriching about this movie: it was just a bad movie. If you haven't watched this one, don't. Save yourself 186 minutes of your time and watch two episodes of your favorite TV show. This movie was just terrible. Absolutely awful.