Scott LeBrun Sly Stallone stars here as John Spartan, a hard-charging, take-no-prisoners cop in 1996 who apprehends master criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), only to be charged with manslaughter when it's believed that Spartans' actions caused the death of about 30 hostages. Both men are sent into cryogenic imprisonment, only to be both thawed out 36 years later.The films' biggest joke is that the "San Angeles" of 2032 is a lame, wimpy environment in which cops are basically pretty useless. There is supposedly only crime of the minor variety, all forms of violence have ceased, and everybody is on their best behaviour. Example: almost every time a person uses profanity, they are fined by a machine that spits out paper copies. And Taco Bell was the only fast food restaurant to survive the "Franchise Wars", so every restaurant is a Taco Bell.Sly fits his determined hero role like a glove, but it's the theatrical Snipes that tends to take dominance. Since films like this often depend on the entertainment value of their villain, "Demolition Man" doesn't disappoint in that regard. The eclectic cast includes Sandra Bullock, as a 21st century cop obsessed with the past, and love interest for our good guy, Nigel Hawthorne, as the dictator who presides over this future world, Denis Leary, as a revolutionary, Glenn Shadix, as a snivelling toady, and Bob Gunton, as the police chief, as well as Benjamin Bratt, Bill Cobbs, Troy Evans, Andre Gregory, Jesse Ventura (briefly seen, in a non-speaking part), Steve Kahan, Grand L. Bush, an uncredited Rob Schneider, and a hard-to-spot Jack Black.Directed with flair by Marco Brambilla, the movie is no great shakes, but it is fun. Its strongest asset is its dose of social satire, which may not be quite as sharp in the also-futuristic "RoboCop", but still elicits some very amused chuckles. There's plenty of in-your-face, violent action, and some very effective production design by David L. Snyder. The climax is pleasingly over the top.Some of the best laughs are classic fish-out-of-water stuff with Sly struggling to come to terms with this dorky new metropolis of the 21st century.Seven out of 10.

crash21 I cannot understand why this movie gets such a bad overall rating. From my point of view, the movie is both entertaining and interesting. Beside Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes did great with both their characters and action in the movie. Plus the story for the movie is very good.I call this Sandra Bullock's one good movie, I can't even see how she kept a straight face while talking her character's mistakes in simple sayings. That part was just hilarious.I have to say the future technology doesn't look like it's going to make the year they had for the movie, but that isn't any big deal. The movie is very entertaining; full of action scenes, and even some humidity. Just watch it, and I'll bet you will like it.

leubner85 Sylvester Stallone, as a cop who inadvertently kills 30 people during a showdown (accidents will happen), and Wesley Snipes, as a high-spirited psychovillain, are placed in the California CryoPenitentiary, frozen for several decades, then thawed out in the year 2032. The joke is that society has become so systematized and pleasure-denying that it's now a world of wimps. The police, trained to capture criminals with computerized gadgets, have no direct experience of physical violence. Sexual contact is illegal, as are alcohol and caffeine, and when you utter a four-letter word in public, a buzzer goes off and a prissy British voice informs you that you're to be fined one credit for violating the "verbal morality code." (Ice cream, I believe, is still allowed.)The movie, of course, is goofing on the puritan chic of the '90s, the new righteousness with which people are divorcing themselves from their bad habits and incorrect thoughts. But then there's Stallone, the big, beefy avatar of red-meat values. He's a winning comedian in this movie, rolling his eyes at a world that no longer places any value on testosterone. Stallone gets some lite chemistry going with Sandra Bullock, as a cop who's such a product of the post-aggressive future that she speaks like an android. As the baddie, Snipes, hair dyed the color of an upset stomach, gives a performance of operatic schlockiness, laughing in the face of…everything.Demolition Man is as much a piece of cheese as the grade-B sci-fi movies of the '50s, which also satirized, with a kind of touching literal- mindedness, the brainy emasculation of the future. The main difference is that those films didn't climax with 45 minutes of smashing mayhem. A Joel Silver action movie released during the fall is a bit of an oxymoron anyway, but even if it's the promise of overwrought violence that lures people into theaters, I suspect it will be the quieter scenes —the ones with a pretense of wit—that keep them satisfied.

bkoganbing 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.