Being kind, you could describe this wild energy as being enough to carry the viewer along, but I did not find this to be the case. The result is a film that feels so totally unfocused that it is really difficult to stay with it. The film touches on a lot of serious subjects, but at the same time it tries to involve comedy, musical numbers, sexual farce, and generally odd or misjudged attempts at comedy. I am really not sure what the vision for the film was, and what was told to the cast to draw in so many big names – but I'm guessing different things attracted them since so many of them appear to be in different films from the others. At this point I was intrigued by the style as well as the content but as the ideas grew the film really gets out of control. The opening credits suggest seriousness and grit this is an impression that continues even at the same time as it adds theatrical presentation to the delivery, and rhyming couplets to the dialogue. The film starred Stallone and Snipes alongside Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Denis Leary and Rob Schneider.I knew little of this film when I sat to watch it, only that it was from Spike Lee, and I was open to whatever it chose to do. RELATED: Did Sylvester Stallone Star in Rocky Due to a Case of Mistaken Identity?ĭespite receiving mixed reviews at the time, Demolition Man has since gained a cult following for its sociopolitical satire, lampooning ideologies of both the American Left and Right. With the police now ill-equipped to subdue violent criminals like Phoenix anymore, Spartan is thawed out to capture his old enemy. However, Phoenix escapes custody in the far future of 2032, a crime-free society whose utopian success has come at the expense of restricting anything deemed offensive, including swearing, drinking and even physical intimacy. over four films, including Demolition Man.ĭemolition Man starred Stallone as John Spartan, an LAPD officer from 1997 who, following a hostage crisis gone wrong, is cryogenically frozen as punishment alongside the criminal who committed it: Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). This announcement comes almost a year after Stallone settled a profit dispute with Warner Bros.
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