![]() 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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