Demolition Man

1993

Action / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 63% · 43 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 192285 192.3K

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Plot summary

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been cryogenically frozen after being wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.


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September 03, 2012 at 04:57 AM

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Sylvester Stallone as John Spartan
Sandra Bullock as Lenina Huxley
Adrienne Barbeau as Main Frame Computer
Jack Black as Wasteland Scrap
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BA_Harrison 8 / 10

Explosive action and scathing satire.

When 20th century violent criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) breaks out of cryogenic prison in the year 2032 and wreaks havoc in a seemingly peaceful utopian society, wrongfully convicted cop John Spartan (AKA The Demolition Man) is thawed out to bring the maniac to justice.

I don't think I've seen Demolition Man since it came out in 1993; watching it today, I was amazed at how accurate some of its predictions of the future were (in essence, at least): in the film, digital transactions have replaced real money, there's a guy holding what could be considered a digital tablet (albeit a tad chunkier than an iPad), there are self-driving cars, non-contact social greetings (a must during these pandemic days), a board room where a virtual meeting takes place (although Zoom it ain't), and it's not hard to imagine how our current overly-PC/snowflake/cancel culture might eventually go so far as to make swearing illegal. Okay, we still wipe our butts with paper and have sex the old-fashioned way, and I don't see that changing in the next twelve years, but you can't get everything right.

Not only is Demolition Man's vision of 2032 eerily prophetic in many ways, but the film also features a witty script bristling with social satire, star Stallone in one of his best performances of the dumb '90s action flick era (happily mocking his tough guy persona), Wesley Snipes having a blast as the eccentric villain of the piece, and Sandra Bullock being super cute and looking mighty fine in skin-tight leggings (and I'm not even that much of a Bullock fan). Director Marco Brambilla balances the humour and the action superbly, opening and closing with guns a-blazing and huge explosions, but ensures that there is never a dull moment even when Stallone and Snipes aren't busting skulls and shooting up the place.

Hell, this film even features early roles for Rob Schneider and Jack Black that didn't irritate me - miracles do happen!

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 7 / 10

Fun campy take

It starts in the near future of an apocalyptic 1996 Los Angeles. John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) aka Demolition Man takes on master criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) when he kidnaps a bus full of people. Simon frames John for the death of those people and John gets 70 years in the cryo-penitentiary. It's 2032 and the world is an idyllic utopia where there is hardly any crime. Simon Phoenix gets a parole hearing where he escapes from prison. He's been programmed to kill social agitant Edgar Friendly (Denis Leary). The police are ill prepare to take on a real criminal. Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) is a police woman who pines for a little action. However Simon is more than even her to handle. So they unthawe John Spartan to take on Simon.

This is great fun camp. The central joke works very well. Take it all with a grain of joy. The world is one silly PC idiocy after another. It's the perfect place for Sly to chafe at. Wesley Snipes makes for a fun villain. Sandra Bullock is also a load of fun. It's also a great excuse for everybody to blast away.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10

Were mainstream films really this cheesy?

One of the dumbest action films of the 1990s, DEMOLITION MAN is a film that hasn't aged particularly well at all in the intervening years since its release. It's one of those futuristic movies that presents a pretty dated vision of the future, all plasticky looking and fake. The script is pretty weak, presenting a great number of plot holes and contrivances as it lurches from one over-wrought set-piece to the next, although such problems are offset by plenty of humour which makes this a lively watch.

On the plus side, Stallone is decent in the titular role, bringing at least some charisma to the part, and Snipes is typically effective as the villain. He's let down by the script's presentation of him as a noisy, overbearing character, irritating rather than menacing, close to Chris Tucker levels of annoyance in places. Even Snipes is better than an exceptionally weak Sandra Bullock and a badly miscast Nigel Hawthorne, who looks like he wants to be anywhere but this movie.

As for the action, well it's noisy and explosive and chock full of pyrotechnic effects, pretty much as you'd expect from a 1990s era action movie. Only the final showdown between Stallone and Snipes is worthwhile, and even that scene alone is packed full of cheesy little throwaway bits that date it firmly in the early '90s (including the mandatory John Woo-inspired jump-while-firing-two-pistols shot). It's a pity that the studio meddled with the movie and cut huge chunks of the violence out, as it would have been interesting to see what was left on the cutting room floor.

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