Demolition Man

Synopsis: With innocent victims caught in the crossfire in Los Angeles' intensifying war on crime, both cop John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) and violent thug Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) are sentenced to a state of frozen incarceration known as "CryoPrison." When Spartan is finally thawed 36 years later, it's 2032, and Los Angeles is now a pacifist utopia called San Angeles. But with Phoenix again on the loose, Spartan must team up with future cop Lenina (Sandra Bullock) to apprehend the killer.

Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne

Production: Warner Home Video

1 win & 6 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.6
Metacritic:: 34
Rotten Tomatoes:: 61%

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: R
Year:: 1993
: 115 min
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FADE IN:
EXT. BLACK SKY - NIGHT
Dark, ominous clouds of smoke. A beat of semi-calm.
And then... A long blast of TRACER FIRE cuts through.
And another. And another. We TILT DOWN to discover we
are --
EXT. LOS ANGELES - AIRBORNE - MOVING - NIGHT (1998)
A city on fire. A block here, block there. More TRACER
FIRE. A cross between the LA riots and Gulf War. A
SUPERED TITLE:
LA RIOT III. And then FADING IN BELOW:
MONTH 4. We CONTINUE MOVING ABOVE the ravaged city --
VOICE #1 (V.O.)
(filtered)
You imagine what it was like when
they had to fly choppers through
this shit?
VOICE #2 (V.O.)
Not even.
Gliding totally silently INTO FRAME is the biggest,
darkest, midnight blue blimp you've ever seen. Small
gold letters on the side -- LAPD. Fully armored beneath.
Woven kevlar on the sides. BULLETS REBOUND with a long
ZZZZZIP off the sides. PING SOFTLY off the plastic armor
on the bottom.
VOICE #1 (V.O.)
I don't understand where we're
going and why the hell we're
bothering anyhow...
A new voice responds. This one brooks no discussion --
SPARTAN (V.O.)
Because there's anger and there's
frustration, and then there's pure
f*cking evil...
INT. BLIMP POD - CONTINUOUS ACTION - NIGHT
JOHN SPARTAN peers down into the fiery landscape.
SPARTAN:
Where we're going is pure f*cking
evil.
(beat)
Thirty people who were riding that
muni bus are still missing. I've
got this bad hunch about who took
them and where they are...
EXT. EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL LA - FROM ABOVE - AIRBORNE -
NIGHT:
Way up ahead, amid the flames, is a fortress. A square
city block. Walled. Something out of the middle ages.
The walls are entirely made from stacked abandoned cars.
INT. BLIMP POD - NIGHT
Spartan is dragging a heavy bag up towards the door.
PILOT #2 looks at him curiously.
PILOT #2
How come they call you Demolition
Man? Are you with the bomb squad?
Spartan gets his bag into position.
SPARTAN:
I just...
(shrugs
apologetically)
... demolish things.
He checks out the window. They're not quite there.
SPARTAN:
I do my job, shit happens.
(to Pilot #1)
Get a thermo.
The PILOT takes a thermogram of the building in the
middle of the compound. We see a series of heat-outlined
figures moving inside.
PILOT #1
Six. One still, in the middle.
The rest moving around. I don't
see any thirty people.
SPARTAN:
(checking the thermo)
What's that?
To the naked eye, out the window, tucked against the
wall of cars, a large tarp. To the thermo, the still
warm inner workings of the muni bus. Faint outlines of
the engine, drive train, even seats and frame. Bingo.
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