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Demolition Man [1993]
from Warner Home Video
starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt
directed by Marco Brambilla

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

Searching for new directions, Sylvester Stallone starred in this farcical, 1993 SF piece about an ex-cop (Stallone) freed from 36 years of forced hibernation to help catch a criminal (Wesley Snipes) who released himself from a similar incarceration. The futuristic story finds Los Angeles a sea of Taco Bells and enforced peace and within that satiric overview Stallone's character becomes a gun-toting fish out of water. The film plays like a live-action cartoon and while there is nothing particularly wrong with that, Demolition Man is a rather flat experience. The irony of a peaceable society that both requires and despises its bloody saviours has been captured far more profoundly in movies like Dirty Harry. Sandra Bullock costars. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Great movie, terrible transfer.
  For me, the movie itself is a nineties' classic: action, adventure and humour blended together seamlessly to provide a thoroughly enjoyable (if untaxing) two hour break from reality.
  Unfortunately, this DVD release is WOEFUL. I could forgive the complete lack of extras (not even a trailer or production notes) but the picture looks like a poor transfer from VHS: it may be anamorphic, but it suffers from clear macro-blocking, colour shifts, artifacing and wholly excessive grain from the opening Warner... more info

• The Stallone ethos
  It's frustrating having to defend Demolition Man as it's attackers have so much ammunition. Very similar to another Stallone flick Judge Dredd, the main character of John Spartan seems too similar to Rambo and to Stallone himself to be distinct. It can feel like there is a good movie here being suffocated by cliché.
  However, I feel that Demolition Man, like Stallone himself, is a little misunderstood. The story concerns John Spartan a warrior police man who will destroy any obstacle to get make... more info

• disappointing quality of transfer
  As most other reviews are about the film and I share the same sentiment as virtually everyone else here (I love this comic book action movie), my review is about the truly disappointing quality of transfer. Both picture quality and sound are really poor.
  My rating relates only to the film though and not quality of transfer.

• Classic comical action affair that deserves it's merits for what it is!
  I haven't written any online review for a while now and this film came to mind the other day so i have decided to order it when i get paid next.
  Just being a bit nosey i thought i'd read other's review's on the film to see what the rest of the world thinks of it and the majority agree that it's a pretty good film!
  one person did however dislike the film on the grounds that he/she seemed to be expecting a hardened killing machine as the bad guy and was not happy with Snipe's performance,... more info

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