Demolition Man

Demolition Man (1993)

  • 63% of critics liked it
    (35 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (188,607 ratings)

The plot of this action film begins in 1996, with Los Angeles in a violence-crazed conflagration. One of the LAPD's most notorious cops, John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), known as "the demolition man," is in hot pursuit of blonde-haired psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), who is… More

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In Theaters
Oct 8, 1993 Wide
On DVD
Sep 30, 1997
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine

    Ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Nearly all the SF premises are accorded the status of Andrew Dice Clay one-liners -- which means that they, along with the characters, keep changing from one scene to the next.

  • Emanuel Levy, Variety

    A noisy, soulless, self-conscious pastiche that mixes elements of sci-fi, action-adventure and romance, then pours on a layer of comedy replete with Hollywood in-jokes.

  • , Time Out

    Forget your preconceptions, but not your brain cells and sense of irony.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Demolition Man is a significant artifact of our time or, at least, of this week.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • EightThirty .


    07/07/2012 (MP4, PS3)

  • danny d


    really fun if not silly action flick.

  • Melvin W


    Zachary Lamb: Simon Phoenix is an old fashioned criminal. We need an old fashioned cop.  "The future isn't big enough for the both of them." Demolition Man is one of those weird movies that I can't decide whether I like or not. Parts at me shaking my head in… More

  • Jens S


    A bit of a guilty pleasure film from the time when Stallone was still a convincing action hero. The premise is actually quite fun: in the future villains are frozen for their crimes. And once crime is eradicated and one of the baddies wakes up, you need an old-fashioned cop. Of course… More

  • Dead A


    <i>Somebody put me back in the freeze</i> Ah I wish I could know the method of using those three sea shells <a href='http://www.mysmiley.net/free-japanese-smileys.php' title='japanese smileys'><img… More

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