Rating: 
Review
Demolition Man is one of the most relentless action movies not starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Before Steven Seagal made it cool, Wesley Snipes was killing innocent people left and right. Ok, not really, but Demolition Man is relentless, fast-paced, and totally MAN. There’s enough testosterone hear to fill a pool, which only barely makes sense, just like the science-fiction future plot lines threading through the whole first half of this movie. but when you realize it doesn’t have to make sense, and Sylvester Stallone is going to crack a skull, the movie becomes entirely clear- we are seeing action film at its best. Demolition Man is probably an hour and a half longer than it needs to be, but there is something truly special about a white man and a black man duking it out for the future of the races- in the future! that IS what this thing is about right?
Reason to Watch
Sandra Bullock is actually attractive here. Oh, and the final sequence is one of the best things ever put on film next to the middle half of Gone With the Wind, another relentless action flick.
Context
Demolition Man is stupidly awesome, and the best thing ever, and if you want proof, look at the list of actors and the director, who has directed this movie ONLY and not another before or since.
Most Memorable Quote(s)
- John Spartan: You’re gonna regret this the rest of your life… both seconds of it.
- Simon Phoenix: Wait a minute, this is the future. Where are all the phaser guns?
- Boggle Guard: Mellow greetings. What seems to be your boggle?
What You Need to Get Through This Movie
Three cases of beer, a dead shark wrestled with your bare hands, and a pet grizzly bear who feeds you cake and recites lines all Stallone’s lines
Trivia
Sylvester Stallone wanted the Simon Phoenix character to be played by Jackie Chan. Chan refused, since Asian audiences don’t like the idea of actors who have always played heroes suddenly playing evil characters
The “ray gun” used by Wesley Snipes in the Museum Armory sequence is based on the Heckler and Koch G11, a prototype weapon for the German army that would have been the most advanced rifle in the world, firing caseless ammunition
Educational Content
Being frozen for 44 years has awkward side effects
Jackie Chan can’t play a villian
John Spartan, the name, induces immediate fear
Justification for Rating
No matter how you cut it, Demolition Man is pure badassery and unrelentingly violent and borderline misogynistic- hence the 9 rating
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