![]() ![]() Demolition Man is an action film and its politics are arguably reactionary and libertarian but the surprise for a Sylvester Stallone film is that it emerges as an action film with rare intelligence and a considerable sense of humour.ĭemolition Man offers a wittily satiric vision of the future – one where current fads for Political Correctness have created a society that is so nice that it is dystopian. ![]() Only one man can possibly stop him: the also cryogenically frozen John Spartan.With the name of Sylvester Stallone attached to an action vehicle, one has rarely come to expect anything other than mindless violence and red-blooded politics that approach the extremes of reactionary libertarianism. ![]() Obsessive San Angeles mayor Dr Raymond Cocteau thaws out history's most dangerous cryogenically frozen super-criminal and brainwashes him into hunting the charismatic leader of an underground group of outlawed nonconformists. We then try to improve upon the villain’s diabolical plan for the honour of choosing next week’s film and hosting the pod.ĭirected by Marco Brambilla and starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock and Sir Nigel Hawthorne (!), they certainly don’t make them like this anymore. The panel of peril have convened once again to discuss the dystopian sci fi, action film Demolition Man (1993). ![]() “I’m wearing more kimonos now than I was in 1993” ![]()
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