Demolition Man

A 20th century cop is awakened from his deep freeze imprisonment in 2032 in order to capture an escaped felon from his own century whose violence threatens the peaceful future social order.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-JUN-2003
Media Type: DVD

Searching for new directions, Sylvester Stallone starred inthis 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. --Tom Keogh