Even going to the bathroom involves not toilet paper, but a mystifyingly technical process called “the three shells.”Īside from Huxley, who regards him as a hero from yesteryear, Spartan’s regarded as a dinosaur – a violent relic from a bygone age. Swearing results in on-the-spot fines from irritating ticket machines. Alcohol, caffeine and other stimulants are banned. Unlike Phoenix, who treats the peaceful utopia of San Angeles like a griefer in an MMO, Spartan is perplexed and ill-at-ease in this future world. With the gleeful abandon of a child in a playground, Phoenix embarks on a new campaign of destruction, his target: Edgar Friendly (Denis Leary), the leader of an underground movement. With cops helpless at Phoenix’s rapid hands and feet, bored, sweet-natured Lieutenant Huxley (Sandra Bullock) has the bright idea of thawing out John Spartan to deal with the problem.
Phoenix finds himself in a future metropolis so devoid of crime that its police force has completely forgotten how to deal with physical violence. Thirty-six years later, Phoenix is thawed out for a parole hearing, and with his martial arts skills and the creative use of a pen, promptly escapes. Having scanned the building and found it empty, Spartan enters, causes his usual havoc, and arrests Phoenix – only to discover that, as the warehouse collapses behind him, the hostages were inside all along.Both Spartan and Phoenix are convicted for the deaths and sent to a CryoPrison, where they’re left to serve a lengthy stretch in a freezer. One of those criminals is Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), a cackling, Joker-like agent of chaos and Spartan’s arch nemesis.Īs the movie opens, Phoenix has taken a busload of people hostage, and has them holed up in a warehouse full of explosives. A hard-working cop on the beat in 1996 Los Angeles, Spartan’s infamous for causing widespread destruction in his pursuit of criminals. “You’re gonna regret this for the rest of your life… both seconds of it”ĭemolition Man introduces us to John Spartan – a muscle-bound tough guy in the usual Stallone mode, except this one wears a beret for some reason.
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