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.
31 October 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
23 September 1958, Lakeland, Florida, USA
November 20, 1960 in Rungsted Kyst, Denmark
1930
4 February 1969, Denver, Colorado, USA
6 November 1953, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
1 February 1940, Indiana, USA
18 August 1957, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
10 November 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 April 1967, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
15 July 1951, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
11 June 1945, Sacramento, California, USA
15 September 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
19 June 1946, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
5 April 1929, Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
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.
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.
April 30, 2008
An inspired mix of high-octane action and futuristic satire.
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]
January 26, 2006
Forget your preconceptions, but not your brain cells and sense of irony.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
