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DEMOLITION MAN

With Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Denis Leary

Directed by Marco Brambilla

A new imprisonment method has offenders frozen and thawed once their term is served. Simon Phoenix, a demented criminal gets this treatment while the cop who busts him (John Spartan) has the same sentenced bestowed on in - for a crime he didn’t commit, of course. Phoenix is released into a future where violence has been eradicated. The only man to stop him ripping this utopia a new one is Spartan, and he is brought out of suspended animation to catch the psycho. Some fun action scenes and humour moves the flick along nicely and Bullock is cute. An unintended funny part includes Stallone’s unmatched mouth and voice-over clash of Taco Bell and Pizza Hut – a last minute endorsement gone wrong?
Made two years before Judge Dredd, the big screen translation of the legendary futuristic UK comic book cop should’ve had a better casting director. Demolition Man is in fact a far superior movie and probably played a role in Stallone clinching the Dredd part.

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