Demolition Man

If ever there was a movie equivalent to the one-night stand this is it - not necessarily something you'll remember next day but fast, furious and damn good fun while it lasts.

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.

Ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion.

Demolition Man is a futuristic cop picture with slightly more imagination and wit than the typical example of the slash-and-burn genre.

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.

Demolition Man is sleek and empty as well as brutal and pointless.

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.

I dont understand the critics. This movie is not only a big entertaining with a lot of good jokes, but gives also good action and great performances by Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock. But in addition they created a funny and convincing "brave new world" futuristic city. There is only one thing I didnt like: Some action scenes are unrealistic.

a comedy action movie with a lot of hit or miss humor and almost all of the humor is based around the concept of the movie

John Spartan i Simon Phoenix ... :) Klasyka kina lat 80 i 90... jest tutaj wszystko, charaktery z jajami, wizja przyszłości i trzy muszelki ;)

As part of a series of odd stabs in the dark for Sylvester Stallone in the mid '90s, Demolition Man struggles at times to find a consistent middle ground between mind-numbing action and sarcastic, culture-conscious comedy. Its tongue-in-cheek predictions about the state of society in the year 2032 are so genuinely stupid that I felt like an idiot for laughing, but laugh I did - and often. The punchlines are plainly lowbrow, so direct a contrast to the straight manner in which Stallone plays his leading role, that I wasn't entirely sure everyone on the cast was in on the joke. The plot, too, is unfailingly moronic, even by action film standards, and may have benefited from a more far-reaching date stamp. When the opening scene designates Los Angeles in 1996 as a criminal's safe haven, complete with a flame-licked Hollywood sign, you should know you're in for a long ride - and it only gets rockier from there. Wesley Snipes plays a joyously schizophrenic foil, part Joker and part Batman, but the picture never advances far enough beyond its one-note premise to take advantage of it. Updated thoughts after a 2021 re-watch: A teeming vat of loose, outrageous, future-gazing action concepts with one of the worst scripts I think I've ever seen. It's like somebody accidentally green-lit a Michael Scarn movie. We meet our hero, imaginatively named John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), on the verge of bungee jumping into a gang-occupied industrial warehouse in south central LA, where a busload of hostages are held for ransom by a manic psychopath type (Wesley Snipes). Things don't go well, and at the end of the day both hunter and hunted are cryogenically frozen for forty years. They wake into a utopian society, the sprawling megalopolis of San Angeles, which purports to cover most of the American west coast, though we only glimpse a few uninspired city blocks. There, before the chase is resumed, we catch wacky misunderstandings between the sheltered natives and the rugged, newly-defrosted cavemen of the previous generation. Loads of half-baked gunfights and unconvincing fisticuffs ensue, plus a museum shootout and a highway chase aboard a self-driving car. Stallone grunts and flexes, showing an awkward amount of skin. Snipes is deeply obnoxious, overplaying his villainous turn at every opportunity. Sandra Bullock is SUPER green, hopelessly lost in one of her first major roles. The core of the film is a total brainless strikeout, but one thing Demolition Man does have going for it is a sense of humor. Like Idiocracy many years later, it shows almost no faith in the future human race, boiling many of our society's more complicated issues down to the single most moronic possible outcome for comedic profit. Life in 2032 California seems calm, but also relentlessly vanilla, with all the spices and colors stamped out by years of risk-averse lawmaking. Every restaurant in the nation is now a Taco Bell, and the people are content with that. Many such predictions have fared surprisingly well, with the recent ubiquity of Zoom video conferencing and the impending arrival of automated personal vehicles. It even predicted the brief political rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger! No cryogenic prisons or seashells in the bathroom yet, sadly. Demolition Man is almost constantly entertaining, but often for precisely the wrong reasons, given its razzie-level writing and acting. I enjoy bad movies from time to time, as we all do, but at the end of the day, they're still bad movies.

Downright horrible movie with plotholes appearing literally every 5-10 minutes. The only few things good about this film is the action (especially the beginning and the final action scene) and Sylvestor Stallone as well as Wesley Snipes. These 2 actors are very good and definately deserve better than to be in this film. The jokes, by the way, range from decent to painful to sit through. (There was one joke that was even used like 3 or 4 times, just altered slightly. It wasn't even funny the first time.) Don't even bother thinking about seeing this film.