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"Demolition Man" dir. by Marco Brambilla



"Demolition Man"

Where I watched it: Hollywood Suite

This movie is super fun. Baffling at times and sometimes seemingly incomplete but hot dang this movie is great. Fantastic performances from an all star cast... most notably Sandra Bullock as the naive, happy-go-lucky future cop.

For those that aren't aware of the plot here it is... it's great...

Stallone and Snipes are mortal enemies in 1996, they both get cryogenically frozen for crimes and are thawed out about 30 years later where they continue to be mortal enemies.

But here's where the movie really succeeds. Everyone in the future is a complete softy. The police force has not had to deal with real crime since the "earthquake of 2010." You aren't even allowed to use curse words without being fined. It's kind of like Utah.

So now that Snipes is thawed and is on the loose with a police force that has no idea how to handle the situation, they must resort to using a cop that knows how to deal with this... Stallone.

Watching Stallone being constantly cheesed and frustrated to be in the new mollycoddled future is fantastic.

The only failings of this movie are the fact that there are plot points that remain unanswered. There is talk of Stallone having a daughter before being frozen and apparently she is still alive in the future... never is this plot point concluded. Apparently there were scenes filmed with Stallone and his daughter reuniting but were edited out to help with the pacing of the film. But why then even have any mention of the daughter? Even weirder when it's implied that Sandra Bullock is his daughter and then they have sex.

This movie is a masterpiece. There I said it. Mostly in the world building aspects but I can 100 percent say in my honest opinion that this is my absolute favorite Stallone movie.

8/10

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