Demolition Man

Plot

The film is a story about two men, one an evil criminal and another a policeman. Although the initial scenes are set in a anarchic, dystopian version of Los Angeles, circa 1996, most of the film is set in the year 2032, where San Angeles, Southern California has become a peaceful, sanitized paradise. (In the film, San Angeles has been created from the joining of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego and the surrounding metropolitan regions following a massive earthquake.)

Related Topics:
Criminal - Policeman - Dystopia - Los Angeles - 1996 - 2032 - San Angeles - Southern California - Paradise - Earthquake

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Simon Phoenix (played by Wesley Snipes) - incarcerated in a "cryoprison" (which, unlike traditional prisons, keeps its prisoners cryogenically frozen in suspended animation) for his activities as a crime lord in 1990s Los Angeles - escapes during a parole hearing and soon embarks on a reign of terror throughout the city of San Angeles. Because police officers no longer know how to deal with ultraviolent criminals like Phoenix, supercop John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), aka "The Demolition Man", is paroled from the cryoprison for the purpose of apprehending Phoenix. (Spartan had been imprisoned as a consequence of underestimating Phoenix's evil genius in the first scene; numerous hostages had died as a result and, after Phoenix implicated Spartan in their deaths, Spartan became the scapegoat.) However, it is revealed that the ruler of San Angeles, Raymond Cocteau, engineered the escape of Phoenix in order to have Phoenix kill resistance leader Edgar Friendly and allow Cocteau to assert even stronger control over his citizens. Unfortunately for Cocteau, he underestimates the criminal genius of Phoenix (much as Spartan had) and is killed, leaving Spartan (and his partner, Lenina Huxley) to try and stop Phoenix from rebuilding his crime empire in a San Angeles ill-equipped to resist it.

Related Topics:
Wesley Snipes - Prison - Cryogenic - Suspended animation - Parole - Ultraviolent - Sylvester Stallone - Scapegoat

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