Don't listen to the negative reviews

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The prediction of the year 2030 looks like the director was right. Four years away from 2020 and the streets appear safer. People seem less menacing than the year 1993 and the generation ten years from now is predicted to be feminine and peaceful. Feminism isn't new, it's the vision of many feminists,the views have not changed that much since 1993.The second assumption was technological advances which will always be true. I would not be surprised if we don't have forms of AI now in our computers, but the most challenging prediction was the social context of 2030. People will be sissys. It already is.

Demolition Man has Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone fight each other after they have come out of a chryo-generic storage hundreds of years into the future. This movie has Pizza Hut, Rat Burgers and a joke about Schwarzenegger being a President and having his own Schwarzenegger Library. Also this film is the definition of 90's Pop Corn action movies is it cheesy? yes it supposed to be you know and it succeeds on that level i mean common in the future we don't even touch our wives we just make love with them in our heads i know right it's cheesy but does anyone else remember Last Action Hero another great 1993 movie where Stallone was supposed to be The Terminator? LOL 1993 was indeed a great year.

I'd caught bits and pieces of this on TV over the years and always thought it looked pretty dumb however when I watched the whole thing on DVD the other night I had a great time. Plenty of action, shoot outs, car chases and explosions along the way with a super fun sci-fi view of the future in 2032 "San Angles". And its funny, all-round way more entertaining than I thought it would be.Sure it has moments where its just your average action movie but it never takes itself too seriously and is bolstered by a strong performance from Sylvester Stallone -who I find usually struggles with the comedy roles but he does a great job here as John Spartan aka The "Demolition man." Wesley Snipes also must have had a ton of fun playing bad guy Simon Pheonix as he basically steals the show.Stallone as Spartan is one of LAPD's most notorious cops and the opening sequence sees him wrongly blamed for the death of several hostages while in pursuit of the crazed Phoenix (Snipes). Both men are then (encased in carbonate) cryogenically frozen to remove their violence from society.The film then shifts to 2032 where Los Angles has become a peaceful and bland place known as San Angles. There is no poverty, violence, sex or swearing and Taco Bell is the sole survivor of the Franchise Wars.Snipes is defrosted to help remove the leader of a group of underground rebels led by (Denis Leary), but of course he is more than anyone can handle, and proceeds to go on a murder/death/kill looting spree. Now the only way to stop him is to defrost an old-fashioned cop. Their final showdown is really good.As Spartan adjusts to self-driving cars and having sex wearing helmets, he's paired up with Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock), a bored cop with a (convenient) fascination for 20th-century culture. I guess this would have been an early role for Bullock and she and Stallone play well off each other -the scene where they "make love" is hilarious. 3/30/16

The opening scene feels like a typical late 1980s/early 1990s action sequence. At least until we realize that there's not going to be a happy ending for the hostages that Spartan is trying to save. Once we arrive at the future, a lot of viewers might misjudge the performances of the principal cast besides Stallone and Snipes. Sandra Bullock, as Lieutenant Lenina Huxley (a reference to Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World)at first seem to be turning in bizarrely incompetent performances. It's only later that we realize they are spot on for the film's "brave new world", which is basically an imitation of a staunchly moralist cult run by Dr. Raymond Cocteau (a reference to famed director Jean Cocteau combined with Cocteau's friend, novelist Raymond Radiguet). This is almost a spin on if the world turned into a very soft world and excuses world.Demolition Man is one of the funniest, most action-packed and most poignant social satires of at least the last 30 years. It's not necessarily the easiest film to appreciate, as it makes its points through extremely over-the-top "mindless" action and tongue-in- cheek, purposefully cheesy plot and dialogue, but it's well worth trying to acclimate oneself to the style if you're not an action or sci-fi fan, as the satire cuts deep.Stallone does an excellent job as over the top old school police cop in a very soft future. He is pretty great at doing action/ comedy