![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are so many clichés throughout the film’s run time that you can begin to lose count. Think of Demolition Man as a cut and paste collage of many different science fiction books and movies rolled into one less than fantastic blockbuster. If you’re looking for a completely original sci-fi/action movie, this is not the best place to start looking. When Spartan is released, he resumes his one man war on his archenemy, and the new city of San Angeles is in for some serious problems. Huxley (Sandra Bullock) to propose unfreezing Spartan to bring down Phoenix. When Phoenix is taken out of stasis in 2032 in a future that has been completely peaceful for years, he sees an opportunity to take the city for himself using methods the police aren’t capable of handling. Both men are then cryogenically frozen in the new prison system to be rehabilitated until their release in the next century. John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), a tough as nails cop who has earned the moniker “Demolition Man.” Known for causing destruction in his pursuit of justice, Spartan meets his match in the super violent criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), who wrongly gets Spartan arrested. In 1996, Los Angeles is overrun with crime and violence which causes the LAPD to really crack down including Sgt. This film has become regarded as one of the high points for the genre at this time period, and while I agree it does have a few more brain cells than some, it suffers from some pretty awful dialogue and a slew of jokes that fall flat. In 1993, a movie called Demolition Man was released starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. It was something of an innocent time for the genre where audiences could just tune the real world out for a few hours and just watch mind numbing action/adventure. This was a time when all an action movie really needed to be good was a jacked guy like Stallone or Van Damme to just be present and take out wave after wave of bad guys, and ultimately saving the day. Throughout the ’80s and the early 90’s, action movies were really in a league of their own. ![]()
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