Demolition Man Reviews
Suite101.com
Not for nothing does the film open on a screen-filling image of the Hollywood sign in flames, for it torches almost every supposition that a film made to showcase Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes whomping on each other can only be brain-dead.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Groucho Reviews
Doesn't quite go far enough, instead settling for cheap gags and cheap thrills, but it tickles fairly well for a couple of hours of crashes and fireballs. [Blu-ray]
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Reel Film Reviews
...a sporadically amusing yet pervasively underwhelming bit of early '90s cheese...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The pleasant surprise about Demolition Man is that both the script, and Stallone, are funny; the film blends big-budget action and tongue-in-cheek humor in the way that Last Action Hero tried, and failed, to do.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Nearly all the SF premises are accorded the status of Andrew Dice Clay one-liners -- which means that they, along with the characters, keep changing from one scene to the next.
A noisy, soulless, self-conscious pastiche that mixes elements of sci-fi, action-adventure and romance, then pours on a layer of comedy replete with Hollywood in-jokes.
Empire Magazine
This futuristic comedy depends on your opinion of Stallone and his unapologetic popcorn-pleasing action no-brainers. To be fair, this one is one of his better ones.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Time Out
Top CriticForget your preconceptions, but not your brain cells and sense of irony.
7M Pictures
Not a bad mid-90s sci fi flick - and with a young Sandra Bullock in spandex to boot!
| Original Score: 3/5
Moviehole
Stallone and Snipes are a great double-act
| Original Score: 3/5
TheMovieReport.com
Featuring intense action, exceptional special effects, and a healthy sense of humor, it is the film Last Action Hero wanted--and failed--to be.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Demolition Man is a significant artifact of our time or, at least, of this week.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Enjoyable pop-culture junk actioner.
| Original Score: 3/5
Laramie Movie Scope
A great villain goes a long way toward making an action movie successful and Snipes certainly does more than his share to make this an enjoyable film.
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| Original Score: 3/4
eFilmCritic.com
Chock-full of obnoxious dialogue, terrible acting, and oh-so-clever product placement.
| Original Score: 2/5
Demolition Man is sleek and empty as well as brutal and pointless. It feels computer engineered, untouched by human hands. A real pod movie.
Sci-Fi Movie Page
Stallone is surprisingly good in this fast, funny and violent futuristic action film.
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| Original Score: 3/4
