Demolition Man (DVD)

Demolition Man, Action, Sci-Fi and Comedy putting action hardmen Sylvester Stallone ("Rocky", "D-Tox") and Wesley Snipes ("Blade", "The Art Of War") together. In 1996, Sergeant John Spartan (Stallone) is framed for the masacre of a large group of hostages. His sentence: Cryo-Suspension. Evil arch-criminal Simon Pheonix (Snipes) was also caught and frozen after the explosive opening sequence. Fast forward to the year 2032, the world has changed. ...
...Although the violence factor in demolition man might not be that high, it still follows the same formula. The action is also of good variety from punch ups, explosions, car chases and gun fights. It may seem a little dated now but it is still entertaining to watch. Soundtrack is very soothing throughout despite it being an action picture, the soundtrack refelects the tame future that the story presents. There are some hilarious moments in this ...

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...actually found myself quite enjoying Demolition Man. And besides, TheNeil says I'm no good at writing those sort of reviews anyway (isn't he beastly?), so if you've clicked onto this opinion expecting to see an onslaught of verbal abuse aimed in the general direction of poor old Sly Stallone, then I'm afraid, in this case, you're going to be sorely disappointed. Granted, the back catalogue of Stallone offers no shortage of targets when it comes to ...
...bad guy maniac' routine but Demolition Man does at least have a streak of originality and enough fresh ideas and snazzy tricks to keep interest levels reasonably high. It's the not-too-distant-future of Los Angeles, 1996 (?) and Sylvester Stallone is detective John Spartan - The Demolition Man, so called because he has a knack of blowing up buildings in the line of duty. Wesley Snipes is Simon Pheonix, a homicidal madman with a knack of blowing ...

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Director: Marco Brambilla. Producers: Joel Silver and Howard Kazanjian. Writers: Peter M. Lenkov, Robert Reneau and Daniel Waters Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Billock, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Leary, Glen Shadix and Jack Black. Released in 1993 this movie takes a look into hell on Earth Los Angeles in 1996 and a rather drastically changed place in the year 2032. _(Sounds like two movies in one but it isn’t really?)_ ==** BRIEF ...
...has turned into a cess pit full of criminal gangs running the majority of the city, with one gang being run by the evil Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) who is being pursued by Sergeant John Spartan, (Sylvester Stallone). Phoenix is cornered by Spartan but manages to turn the tables and it is Spartan that ends up on the wrong side of the law, both men soon ending up in a ‘Cryoprison’, where the inmates can cause no more trouble to anyone. Then, jumping ...

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...and 50 minutes long. Demolition Man even had its own song! Sung by 'STING' who is a well known artist nowadays, the track was named after the film, it was a pure hit and boosted the films ratings, the track wasn't that great though and was only played at the end of the movie in the credits. ACTORS As I mentioned before Wesley Snipes and Sylvesture Stallone starred together in this flik. Well known Sandra Bullock also starred a main role in the ...
...what made Sandras name. In Demolition Man, Sandra plays a young woman who is high up in the police squad. She makes most of the decisions in the film to do with what will happen next. She is really funny at times. Wesley Snipes ~ In this film he plays the bad guy, the hard core criminal whose out to destroy and kill. He is great and full of loads of cheeky comments. I think this is one of Snipes' better films, I enjoyed seeing him as the bad guy. ...

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...of my favourite scenes in Demolition Man involves Snipes breaking into the "gun exhibition" in the local museum. A hapless museum worker comes along and asks "What seems to be his boggle?", resulting in him being thrown through the glass of the weapons store and Snipes going apeshit with classic pistols and shotguns from the '90s, as well as the more-recent phaser gun. Stallone soon gets in on the action and ends up walloping Phoenix with a 14 " ...
...couldn't help but laugh. Demolition Man is loud and funny, and, perhaps more surprisingly, thought-provocative. The envisioned future has been built upon the ideas from such films as Total Recall and Woody Allen's Sleeper -- the underground resistance/having sex through electronic equipment -- in which the majority of society has become politically correct, overtaken by corporate food chains such as Taco Bell, resulting in the people being mindless ...

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In 1993, a certain Mr Stallone made a movie which, in my opinion, is right up with the Rocky films as his best role. Set in 1996, 3 years in the future from when it was made, the world has crumbled around people and criminals are running cities. One of the most persistent offender is Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). After kidnapping a bus load of people and keeping them hostage in an old warehouse, John Spartan (Sly Stallone) turns up to save the ...
...is his chance to finally catch him. Phoenix is soon caught but due to the vast amount of damage caused by Phoenix and Spartan, they are both cryogenically frozen for foreseeable future. Fast forward 36 years to 2032. The whole world has changed drastically and no longer is there violent crime and danger. LA no longer exists and they are now in San Angeles (the cities of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco decide to become one big city after ...

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...film set in 2032, named Demolition Man. The result was a smashing film, with favoured Sly Stallone as a no nonsense cop pitted against crime lord Wesley Snipes. The film did relatively well at the box office, and it's always a good film to watch if you're in the mood for a no brain action film with a bit of a twist! The film starts off in 1996 ( at the time this was 3 years in the future!), and shows a face off between risk-taking John Spartan (Stallone) ...
...successful capture, the authorities decide that Spartan's methods were unacceptable, and he and Phoenix are both cryogenically frozen. Fast forward to 2032, and Los Angeles has changed: now known as San Angeles, technology has advanced and the law is much stricter, fining people for swearing and with automated criminal detection devices everywhere. Phoenix escapes, and, faced with an unfamiliar villain with old styles of criminality, the only thing ...

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...again and still enjoy. The Demolition Man in question is John Spartan (played well by the normally static and robotic Sylvester Stallone). He gains his nickname due to his habit of destroying things - normally buildings, property, cars etc - in his pursuit of the bad guys. The film begins with Spartan attempting to rescue hostages from a warehouse, being held captive by the notorious criminal Simon Phoenix (played by Wesley Snipes in usual ass-kicking ...
...killed the hostages unknown to our hero. The result? Spartan is blamed for the deaths and sentenced to prison. Not just any prison though, but a cryogenic one (that's "ice with a slice" to you and I). As we are then brought up to date many, many years later in the 21st century, society has somewhat changed. Law and order is an easy job, due to the fact that a new culture has been created, and everyone is mellow. Crime is rare, pursuits such as kissing ...

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20th century Los Angeles, (1996.) Sylvester Stallone is a hard hitting cop dubbed the ‘Demolition Man’ as everything he comes across seems to get…well…demolished! His arch enemy Wesley Snipes frames Stallone, condemning them both to experimental, sub-zero imprisonment or ‘rehabilitation.’ Cue 21st century. 2032. San Angeles. A time of peace and order. Crime is non existent and we are plunged into a world were ...
...In an ‘accidental’ parole hearing incident Simon Phoenix (Snipes) escapes his ice prison ‘rehabilitated’ with new skills of martial arts, computer and weapon capabilities. Ill-equipped to deal with this archaic monster the San Angeles police department call upon John Spartan (Stallone) to deal with Phoenix as best he can with his newly rehabilitated abilities of… knitting!!! John Spartan certainly lives up to his reputation, ...

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...things differently there." This is Demolition Man's sci-fi heart, with a dash of cryogenics for criminals (Stallone's cop is wrongfully convicted) providing the means of (one-way) time travel. Demolition Man features Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock. Snipes and Bullock clearly enjoy themselves, with Snipes playing an intelligent, twisted master criminal who loves tormenting his mortal enemy (Stallone, constipated as always). Much ...
...coarse twentieth-century types into a sanitised future where everything bad for you (salt, coffee, meat etc) is banned, and crime and murder are unknown (cops are essentially park wardens). While there is politics, intrigue and sci-fi here (beneath this sanitised world lies an underworld living in extreme poverty which occasionally surfaces to threaten the comfortable populace), the core of the film is a ballet of violence as Snipes and Stallone ...

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A fun sci-fi film with the added bonus of Sandra Bullock in uniform, the story covers the capture of Simon Phoenix in 1997, a notorious criminal played excellently by Wesley Snipes, who is sentenced to cryogenic suspension and re-education. Also imprisoned is police officer John Spartan. 30 years later when Phoenix is set free and begins his criminal rampage again, Spartan is let loose to bring him down. From here on it is an amusing look at the ...

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Sly is a rough yet effective cop who always gets his man even if it means causing vast destruction to do it. Snipes is a evil arch-villain. Sly captures Snipes and brings him in alive, but Snipes sets off an explosion and frames Sly for inadvertantly murduring hostages. Both are sentenced to be cryogenically frozen, where they will learn useful skills and be thawed when their sentences are up. Sly learns sewing and Snipes learns computers and combat ...

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...a machine gun. Demolition Man pits Stallone against an another fellow action star, as Wesley Snipes takes the villain roll (apparently orginally offered to Jackie Chan). Snipes plays Simon Phoenix, a crimelord, convicted and cryogenically frozen in 1996, but thawed out and able to escape to generally cause havoc and mayhem in a utopian 2032. Luckily for the future, Stallone's Sgt John Spartan also happens to be frozen and imprisoned for a crime ...
...in a futuristic landscape begin. And it does, it really does. Lets not split hairs, this isn't a masterpiece, and although I'm not 100% sure of the Oscar nominations in 1993, I'm willing to hazard a guess that this didn't make the cut, BUT, if you want to watch Stallone save the future, violently, and Wesley Snipes do a fairly convincing and enjoyable psychopath routine, then this may be for you. The overly sacharine world of tommorow also gives ...

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"Demolition Man" is another example of a film that had a superb preview working for it; the preview made the movie look thought-provoking, even profound, and irresistible. I was hooked, and I had to see the movie. The preview fulfilled its purpose admirably, it got one more person to pay to see the movie. It's just a shame the movie didn't live up to the preview. "Demolition Man" takes an interesting premise a bit too far, and in the process becomes ...
...of the movie, a heroic but renegade police officer, John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), is put in suspended animation in the early 90s. That's done as punishment for an incident in which he's made to look like he's committed involuntary manslaughter. At about the same time, a master career criminal, Simon Phoenix, (played by Wesley Snipes) is also placed in suspended animation, for eternity. Time passes, and about 50 years later, Simon Phoenix is ...

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Demolition Man is pure entertainment from the word go. It is a fast-paced action hero showpiece with an unusual degree of humour and insight. Most action hero movie humour is simplistic to say the least (i.e. door of camp is blown off hinges with rocket launcher, cue Arnie: "knock, knock"). Demolition Man manages some real belly laughs along the way with some cosistently witty ideas. The story is that in the late 20th century a gung-ho cop (Sylvester ...
...cryogenically frozen as punishment after their last destructive encounter. However, in the 21st century Pheonix is mysteriously thawed out and once again goes on the rampage in LA. The 21st century is a very different world to the one they left, howwever. Violent crime has disappeared, bad language is outlawed and everything is very, well, nice. This is apparantly the outcome of some large scale social engineering but the corporation that now controls ...

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