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Demolition Man
Two enemies sentenced to a state of frozen incarceration known as 'CryoPrison' are awoken 36 years later and resume a three decade old rivalry.
20 October 1948, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
1 February 1940, Indiana, USA
30 November 1960, San Diego, California, USA
6 November 1953, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
4 July 1959, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
3 April 1958, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
16 November 1965, Henrico County, Richmond, Virginia, USA
April 30, 2008
An inspired mix of high-octane action and futuristic satire.
May 20, 2003
Demolition Man is a significant artifact of our time or, at least, of this week.
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.
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]
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.
August 13, 2011
...a sporadically amusing yet pervasively underwhelming bit of early '90s cheese...
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
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.
January 26, 2006
Forget your preconceptions, but not your brain cells and sense of irony.
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.
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.
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.
