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Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

crash21 I cannot understand why this movie gets such a bad overall rating. From my point of view, the movie is both entertaining and interesting. Beside Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes did great with both their characters and action in the movie. Plus the story for the movie is very good.I call this Sandra Bullock's one good movie, I can't even see how she kept a straight face while talking her character's mistakes in simple sayings. That part was just hilarious.I have to say the future technology doesn't look like it's going to make the year they had for the movie, but that isn't any big deal. The movie is very entertaining; full of action scenes, and even some humidity. Just watch it, and I'll bet you will like it.

bkoganbing The futuristic society that is shown in Demolition Man reminds me so much of the classic Star Trek prime episode concerning the will of Landru. That one where the Enterprise away team finds a society that is forced to be nice and calm. The only problem these folks seem to have is that no one has provided for a Festival where people can give way to some of their baser impulses for a short while. At least that society recognized people have and they have to cut loose every so often.So other than the underground people who literally live underground this is as orderly a society as you can imagine. But disorder and chaos are on the way in the person of Wesley Snipes who was a psychotic crime lord who was released from cryogenic freezing by Nigel Hawthorne who thinks that this society will be even more orderly under his personal control. Only there ain't no controlling Snipes once he's on the loose.You got one psychotic on the loose get another to take care of him. So Sylvester Stallone is unfrozen and he also is a person difficult to control. He's a cop from the 20th century old school, but he's the only guy to deal with Snipes.Demolition Man is one of my favorite Stallone films and he's fine, but Wesley Snipes really makes this film. He chewed a few sets up to get the desired effect of crazy in his performance. That blond dye job on his hair makes him look like Dennis Rodman or for old folks like me, the old wrestler Sweet Daddy Siki. He's having a ball in this part and he lets us in on the fun.Sandra Bullock is the 21st century cop who learns all about 20th century culture from Stallone. The sex scene is taken from Woody Allen's Sleepers as they have their own version of the Orgasmatron. Benjamin Bratt is another 21st century cop who just can't get the hang of Stallone's old fashioned methods. More to the point people like him in that society just can't comprehend pure evil which is what Snipes represents.Demolition Man has enough action for any Stallone/Snipes fan to handle. But there's also a lot of humor some of it nice and satirical. One of Sly's better films.

t_atzmueller If one takes a closer look at Sly's Vita, one will notice a certain wave-pattern (which is something that the careers many of our favourite 80's action-heroes share). For every "Rocky", there was a "Stop! Or my Mom will shoot", for every "Rambo" there was a "Rambo III"; in short, despite being one of the most recognizable (action)-heroes of his time, his career had distinct ups-and-downs."Demoliton Man", in my personal opinion, would be the perfect epitaph for Stallone's career of the 1990's (until he would sort-of resurrect that career during the mid-2000). Actually, I consider this flick among my Top-10 Stallone-films. For various reasons: Stallone is still in great shape, Sandra Bullock cute as a button and Wesley Snipes is excellent as psychopathic villain (whereby it must be mentioned, in the synchronized German version I first saw, Snipes is given the same squeaky Mickey-Mouse-voice that almost all black actors were given at the time, including Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. Though it sounds unlikely, that voice makes the villain Phoenix sound even crazier and psychotic than the original-language-version). Then you have a cast that is equally fitting, from a suitably annoying Benjamin Bratt to Shakespearian actor Nigel Hawthorne.Apart from the action, which is cream of the crop, suitably violent without being downright gory, I might add, the movie is witty and funny, without being silly or pretentious. Safe to say, lines like "Murder-Death-Kill" and the "Three Sea-Shells" have made it into popular culture. And yes, Sly's tribute to "President Schwarzenegger" made the audience cheer, probably a bit more (and in retrospect way more prophetic) than Arnie's slightly similar kiss-off in "The Last Action Hero".A few years later, I went to watch "Judge Dredd", which did seem like a good idea. Or rather, the concept seemed like a good idea. Most viewers will remember how that ended: a vanity-project for Stallone that, apart from the settings and costumes, had little in common with the comic-book and turned out a complete disappointment. Throughout the film I could help but to think how the "Judge Dredd"-movie would have turned out, had it been filmed by the same crew as "Demolition Man" – it would have turned into the perfect adaptation of the "2000 AD"-comics! In short: "Demolition Man" – again, this being my personal opinion – remained the last enjoyable Stallone-flick until Stallone, after a hiatus of being labeled an aging has-been and producing cinematic and straight-to-video-schlock, regained some of his former status with films like "Rocky Balboa", "Rambo" and, to an extent, "The Expendables". As it is, it's great popcorn-cinema and Sly's last fine offering in his prime-time.7/10

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Sly Stallone movie in order, I come to 1993Plot In A Paragraph: John Spartan (Stallone) a renegade police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison, to pursue Simon Pheonix (Wesley Snipes) a former enemy who is loose in a non-violent future society.We don't get anything new from Sly here, the renegade cop who always has a witty one liner and does things his own way. Wesley Snipes completely steals the show. Sandra Bullock is also great in one of her first good roles, and Benjamin Bratt is solid support, as is Dennis Leary. The double punch of Cliffhanger and Demolition Man gave Stallone his best year at the box office since 1985. Whilst there are some good laughs, and decent action set pieces, some of the one liners are cringe worthy.