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Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Sci-fi; With: Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone
B-
By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

DEMOLITION MAN (R) Until the climax (45 minutes of smashing mayhem), this Joel Silver production is an intermittently amusing sci-fi satire. Sylvester Stallone, who is wrongly imprisoned fork killing 30 people during a showdown, and Wesley Snipes, as a high-spirited psychovillain, are frozen for several decades and then thawed out in the year 2032. The joke is that society has become so systematized and pleasure-denying that it's now a world of wimps. The movie is goofing on the puritan chic of the '90s, the new righteousness with which people are divorcing themselves from their bad habits and incorrect thoughts. But then there's Stallone, the big, beefy avatar of red-meat values. He's a winning comedian in this movie, rolling his eyes at a world that no longer places any value on testosterone. B- ( 193, Oct. 22) -OG


Posted Oct 29, 1993
 

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