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Release Date: 03 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
Demolition Man Reviews
Are you expecting an oscar worthy performance from Sly?
This movie can't be judged with the same standards as Monster's Ball or JFK, its Sly Stallone people. Considering this I would have to say that this movie isn't all that bad. In fact I (gasp) would say this is a good movie, not for its action but for its humor. If someone can answer the three seashell mystery, I will galdly give that person a substantial reward.
Are crime and violence being allowed by the powers that be in order that they be allowed further control over our lives?
A criminal frozen during the 20th Century, Simon Phoenix (Wesly Snipes), escapes in the 21st century and goes on a crime spree. John Sparton (Sylvester Stallone), a top cop frozen in the 20th Century after being charged with manslaughter, is thawed out to catch him.
John Sparton is introduced to the 21st century by a fellow cop with an interest in the 20th Century, Lt Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock). In the 21st Century the meek truly have inherited the earth. There's no crime and sex is done by virtual reality. There's no exchange of 'bodily fluids' ick!
Sandra Bullock as Lenina Huxley does a good job playing a polite eager lady of the 21st Century. She has an interest in the 20th Century so she's quicker to recognize violence than her cop peers, even doing a karate move which she later explains comes from, "watching a Jackie Chan movie". She's playing a nice girl who carries a big stick I guess. Later in another movie, 'Miss Congeniality', Bullock would play a tough cop undercover as a nice beauty contestant. For me, in Demolition Man, she is more impressive. Sandra Bullock carries this movie in a very amazing, very memorable performance. Sandra Bullock is this movie. This is a sci fi movie though, where everything that is up is down and where sometimes movie makers seem to comment on apparently taboo issues of the present. Sandra Bullock received only a 'Razzie' award (worst acting performance) for her role here.
'Demolition Man' doesn't get into having us try to empathize too much with cop John Sparton or criminal Simon Pheonix. One is simply an agent of destruction, the other an instrument to catch him. And both are instruments of a little humor. Still, Simon Pheonix seems, perhaps, more 'real' in that if you asked him whether or not your dress made you look fat, Simon Phoenix might give you a true answer.
It turns out, the head honcho in the 21st century, Dr Raymond Cocteau (Nigel Hawthorne), actually released Simon Phoenix on purpose, so he would cause mayhem and give the government an excuse to further control peoples lives (which considering there's no crime littering or violence already, could seem a little odd). One thing about the future that turns out to be the same, is that, behind the scenes there's a rich powerful bad guy who is really the cause of all evil. Ok this is just a movie and not really the future.
I was entertained by 'Demolition Man' and probably very much in love with Sandra Bullock or at least in awe of her performance, when, near the very end, I realized, 'hey, is this what is going on right now'? Are 'crime' and 'violence' being allowed by the powers that be in order that they be allowed further control over our lives?
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