Demolition Man (1993)

Touches You

So much average

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

In 1996, a terrorist named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) has been causing mayhem in L.A. until a renegade police officer named John Spartan (Slyvester Stallone) captures him but Spartan is framed for a crime he didn't commit during duty as both are convicted and suspended in cyrogenetic freezing suspension animation for a long time as Spartan has been sentenced for a long time, in the year 2032 36 years later, Los Angeles has changed into San Angeles which is a fusion of San Diego, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles is now ran by Dr Raymond Cocteau (Nigel Hathrowne) with his associate Bob (Glen Shaddix). The City has become a peaceful brainwashed loving society of people where things like chocolate/meat/pregnancy without a license/bad language (there's even machines where people are fine credits instead of money for using a swear word in public or anywhere)/gasoline and other stuff is banned and Taco Bell becomes the main restaurant for the city as it owns other restaurants. Simon has been unfrozen as he is on the loosing robbing and murdering others even stealing guns from a museum of violence. Chief George Earl (Bob Gunton from Shawshank Redemption) has worried about this as the police don't know how to handle this kind of violence which the cops have become non-violent, Lt. Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) who is nostalgic about the 20th century along with Zachery Lamb (Bill Cops) whom he was once a pilot for Spartan comes up with an idea to thaw out Spartan from his suspended animation slumber then thaw him out to help take care of this maniac. Spartan has awaken to find everything is different as he is trying to adjust to this new life he has now, there's also a radical group of rebels who live in an underground city called the Scraps lead by Edgar Friendly (Denise Leary) who believes in freedom of choice/speech as he wants to take down Cocteau once and for all but there is also something behind Cocteau unlike the citizens of San Angeles thinks he is.A very entertaining, well paced, action packed and fun Science Fiction action satire that is basically like the story of Brave New World with a hint of Blade Runner and Orwell's 1984 with a satire on what would it be like if the future went politically correct and if Taco Bell owned every restaurant. Originally Jean Claude Van-Demme and Jackie Chan were considered for the role of Simon Phoenix but the role went to Wesley Snipes, which i am very happy he took the role and this is my second fave role of his after Blade and nice to see him play a bad guy than a good guy like usual. Simon Phoenix with his dyed yellow hair and 90s jumpsuit reminds me of Duke Nukem only black and has mismatched colored eyes one blue and one hazel which was used by contact lenses. Stallone is fantastic as John Spartan whom is one of the most badass sci-fi characters around who is trying to fit in this watered down PCed society where real music is gone only underground when commercials are used for music even TV show themes are used for music plus when Cocteau thinks his Utopia is paradise and heaven when it's actually more like hell if you ask me. There's also a thing where people use 3 seashells instead of toilet paper, look online to see how the 3 seashells work.The movie is still relevant with the way things are going nowadays in the SJW/PC culture and is almost like a warning and statement. Plus the action is bold and thrilling, the future is well designed even the costumes and nice use of some practical effects with some interesting ideas/satire thrown in even about a commercialized future going PC and the dangers of it when freedom is needed. A must see.

The futuristic society that is shown in Demolition Man reminds me so much of the classic Star Trek prime episode concerning the will of Landru. That one where the Enterprise away team finds a society that is forced to be nice and calm. The only problem these folks seem to have is that no one has provided for a Festival where people can give way to some of their baser impulses for a short while. At least that society recognized people have and they have to cut loose every so often.So other than the underground people who literally live underground this is as orderly a society as you can imagine. But disorder and chaos are on the way in the person of Wesley Snipes who was a psychotic crime lord who was released from cryogenic freezing by Nigel Hawthorne who thinks that this society will be even more orderly under his personal control. Only there ain't no controlling Snipes once he's on the loose.You got one psychotic on the loose get another to take care of him. So Sylvester Stallone is unfrozen and he also is a person difficult to control. He's a cop from the 20th century old school, but he's the only guy to deal with Snipes.Demolition Man is one of my favorite Stallone films and he's fine, but Wesley Snipes really makes this film. He chewed a few sets up to get the desired effect of crazy in his performance. That blond dye job on his hair makes him look like Dennis Rodman or for old folks like me, the old wrestler Sweet Daddy Siki. He's having a ball in this part and he lets us in on the fun.Sandra Bullock is the 21st century cop who learns all about 20th century culture from Stallone. The sex scene is taken from Woody Allen's Sleepers as they have their own version of the Orgasmatron. Benjamin Bratt is another 21st century cop who just can't get the hang of Stallone's old fashioned methods. More to the point people like him in that society just can't comprehend pure evil which is what Snipes represents.Demolition Man has enough action for any Stallone/Snipes fan to handle. But there's also a lot of humor some of it nice and satirical. One of Sly's better films.

Demolition Man has Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone fight each other after they have come out of a chryo-generic storage hundreds of years into the future. This movie has Pizza Hut, Rat Burgers and a joke about Schwarzenegger being a President and having his own Schwarzenegger Library. Also this film is the definition of 90's Pop Corn action movies is it cheesy? yes it supposed to be you know and it succeeds on that level i mean common in the future we don't even touch our wives we just make love with them in our heads i know right it's cheesy but does anyone else remember Last Action Hero another great 1993 movie where Stallone was supposed to be The Terminator? LOL 1993 was indeed a great year.

Continuing my plan to watch every Sly Stallone movie in order, I come to 1993Plot In A Paragraph: John Spartan (Stallone) a renegade police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison, to pursue Simon Pheonix (Wesley Snipes) a former enemy who is loose in a non-violent future society.We don't get anything new from Sly here, the renegade cop who always has a witty one liner and does things his own way. Wesley Snipes completely steals the show. Sandra Bullock is also great in one of her first good roles, and Benjamin Bratt is solid support, as is Dennis Leary. The double punch of Cliffhanger and Demolition Man gave Stallone his best year at the box office since 1985. Whilst there are some good laughs, and decent action set pieces, some of the one liners are cringe worthy.