Many of Sylvester Stallone’s action classics, while fan cult, have been torn apart by critics. What often doesn’t seem to affect the star has hurt him in a sci-fi spectacle since it was released in cinemas in 1993. According to the actor, Demolition Man was way ahead of its time. And deserves a second part.
Sylvester Stallone calls for reappraisal for his prophetic sci-fi hit
Demolition Man revolves around badass cop Spartan (Stallone) and his psychopathic nemesis Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). being frozen as punishment after an orgy of destruction. In 2032, Spartan is thawed to catch the escaped adversary. And gets to know a future that couldn’t be more bizarre.
That’s what Stallone has been obsessing over for 29 years. He cannot understand the criticism of the film, as he quotes on Instagram. There the star shares the comment of an article.
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Most critics considered the unique 1993 film to be “another dumb action flick with too many explosions”. But he prophesied and parodied political correctness, toxic masculinity, racial prejudice, cancel culture and more. The film was obviously brilliant. He deserves more recognition.
“I always enjoyed him“, says Stallone, “The authors were ahead of their time.” The Demolition Man future vision is indeed unparalleled. Voice control, video conferencing, pandemic distancing measures or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s political career are just some of the predictions that the film stages with lots of lively humor.
Check out the trailer for Demolition Man here:
Demolition Man – Trailer (German) HD
Sylvester Stallone wants to continue his sci-fi hit soon
Certainly with a reason why the film became a hit for Stallone (via rogerebert.com) and left the negative reviews (via Metacritic) untouched. It remains to be seen whether he actually prophesied fundamental injustice such as racist prejudices or the complicated cancel culture phenomenon.
In fact, according to a statement by Sylvester Stallone in 2020, a sequel is in the works. Hopefully we will soon find out how well this works in times of everyday video communication. In any case, it is the deserved one Sequel to a unique and endlessly entertaining film.
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