IN THE YEAR 2032, PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMINAL SIMON PHOENIX IS THAWED FROM A CRYOGENIC STATE FOR A PAROLE HEARING. BUT HE ESCAPES AND BEGINS A RAMPAGE THROUGH THE PEACEFUL CITY OF SAN ANGELES. ONLY JOHN SPARTAN A ’90S KIND OF COP, CAN BE THAWED TO FACE PHOENIX, A ’90S KIND OF CRIMINAL.Searching for new directions, Sylvester Stallone starred in this farcical, 1993 SF piece about an ex-cop (Stallone) freed from 36 years of forced hibernation to help catch a criminal (Wesley Snipes) who released himself from a similar incarceration. The futuristic story finds Los Angeles a sea of Taco Bells and enforced peace, and within that satiric overview Stallone’s character becomes a gun-toting fish out of water. The film plays like a live-action cartoon, and while there is nothing particularly wrong with that, Demolition Man is a rather flat experience. The irony of a peaceable society that both requires and despises its bloody saviors has been captured far more profoundly in movies like Dirty Harry. Sandra Bullock costars. The DVD release has optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, production notes, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, optional Spanish soundtrack, and optional French and Spanish subtitles. –Tom Keogh
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March 16, 2010
#1
this is the worst movie ive ever seen…the plot is ridiculous…i think the scene that sums up this movie is when stalone goes in the sewer finds a group of people living there and low and behold he happens upon a spanish woman grilling hotdogs and hamburgers and he promptly orders a burger and beer and she asks what hes paying with in spanish of course…then they cut to a horribly ugly watch bullock is wearing and he says hell pay with that so he gets this burger and beer and guess what? ooo whoa ho its actually made of rats … that was a kneeslapper and than stalone adds the witty quip “oh not bad!” which made me want to drown myself…whats even better is that 2 minutes later he happens upon a 1970 muscle car in perfect condition i mean that would make sense that a muscle car from 1970 would be in a sewer in 2032 and in perfect condition among a group of sewer dwellers…and on that i think im gonna fill up my bath tub with some good ol’water to drown myself after watching this movie
March 16, 2010
#2
and I mean Bad Bad not good BAD! Waste of time for Sandra Bullock I’d rate it zero star if I could.
March 16, 2010
#3
This movie will like those who is into comic books
March 16, 2010
#4
Sylvester Stallone slurs his way through another explosion-encased attempt at a movie. Good God, I’m sorry–but deep down, you know that’s how it goes. I just feel sorry for the guy who has to clean up the bullet blanks at the end of each take (and Stallone’s acting coach–ZING!).
Wesley Snipes is in this too as a flamboyant, clown-like gangster with bullets and guns and the intention of wearing parachute pants…that’s how his character acts. But hey, it was the 80′s version of the future, so if you didn’t have parachute pants or metal shoulder pads, you were pretty much a loser.
I think there is a woman in this to, but it was hard to tell through all of the gun smoke.
Stallone would be at the bottom of my list if it wasn’t for people like Steven Segal and (most of all) Jean-Claude Van Damme. Human meatloaf….GOD!
March 16, 2010
#5
This is the only Sylvester Stallone movie I ever saw in its entirety, and that was because I was stuck on a bus trip between Chengdu and Chongking. It is pure formula junk, with not a jot of originality or anything that rises about banal violence, simplistic good guys and bad guys, and spectacular effects. I would not recommend this to anyone who wants more than the crudest, most brainless Hollywood entertainment, but then, that is why I have avoided Stallone films.