He subsequently murders his guards and the warden, making his way into the city where he easily overpowers and kills several police officers who have never had to deal with violent crime. Phoenix is thawed for a parole hearing and escapes from the cryo-prison by saying a secret password, without knowing how he had learned it. In 2032, the city of San Angeles – a megalopolis formed from the merger of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara – is a seemingly peaceful utopia designed and run by Dr. Both men are sentenced to lengthy terms in the city's new 'California Cryo-Penitentiary', a prison in which convicts are cryogenically frozen and exposed to subliminal rehabilitation techniques. The hostages' corpses are later found in the rubble, and Phoenix claims that Spartan knew about them and attacked anyway. When a thermal scan of the area reveals no trace of the hostages, he raids the building and confronts Phoenix, who sets off explosives to destroy it. LAPD Sergeant John Spartan, nicknamed 'The Demolition Man' for the large amounts of collateral damage he often causes in apprehending suspects, mounts an unauthorized assault to capture Phoenix.

In 1996, psychopathic career criminal Simon Phoenix kidnaps a busload of hostages and takes refuge in an abandoned building.

It earned $159 million worldwide, and was considered a successful film for Stallone. The film was released in the United States on October 8, 1993, to mixed reviews from critics. The story makes allusions to many other works including Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World, and H. Unable to deal with a criminal as dangerous as Phoenix, the authorities awaken Spartan to help capture him again. Society has changed and all crime has seemingly been eliminated. Phoenix is thawed for a parole hearing in 2032, but escapes. After a failed attempt to rescue hostages from evil crime lord Simon Phoenix (Snipes), they are both sentenced to be cryogenically frozen in 1996. Stallone is John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer who has a reputation for causing destruction while carrying out his work.

It stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Nigel Hawthorne. Demolition Man is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut.

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