Demolition Man
With innocent victims caught in the crossfire in Los Angeles' intensifying war on crime, both cop John Spartan and violent thug Simon Phoenix are sentenced to a state of frozen incarceration known as 'CryoPrison'. 36 years later, it's 2032, and Los Angeles is now a pacifist utopia called San Angeles. But with Phoenix again on the loose, Spartan must team up with future cop Lenina to apprehend the killer.
15 April 1952, Bessemer, Alabama, USA
16 February 1948, Missoula, Montana, USA
24 December 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 April 1958, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
16 November 1965, Henrico County, Richmond, Virginia, USA
4 July 1959, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
26 July 1964, Arlington, Virginia, USA
29 May 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 01, 2013
Not for nothing does the film open on a screen-filling image of the Hollywood sign in flames, for it torches almost every supposition that a film made to showcase Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes whomping on each other can only be brain-dead.
August 13, 2011
...a sporadically amusing yet pervasively underwhelming bit of early '90s cheese...
April 30, 2008
A noisy, soulless, self-conscious pastiche that mixes elements of sci-fi, action-adventure and romance, then pours on a layer of comedy replete with Hollywood in-jokes.
April 30, 2008
This futuristic comedy depends on your opinion of Stallone and his unapologetic popcorn-pleasing action no-brainers. To be fair, this one is one of his better ones.
May 20, 2003
Demolition Man is a significant artifact of our time or, at least, of this week.
April 30, 2008
Nearly all the SF premises are accorded the status of Andrew Dice Clay one-liners -- which means that they, along with the characters, keep changing from one scene to the next.
May 12, 2001
Demolition Man is sleek and empty as well as brutal and pointless. It feels computer engineered, untouched by human hands. A real pod movie.
January 26, 2006
Forget your preconceptions, but not your brain cells and sense of irony.
September 05, 2011
Doesn't quite go far enough, instead settling for cheap gags and cheap thrills, but it tickles fairly well for a couple of hours of crashes and fireballs. [Blu-ray]
April 30, 2008
An inspired mix of high-octane action and futuristic satire.
July 25, 2010
Ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members.
July 25, 2010
The pleasant surprise about Demolition Man is that both the script, and Stallone, are funny; the film blends big-budget action and tongue-in-cheek humor in the way that Last Action Hero tried, and failed, to do.
