Sylvester Stallone (“Rocky”, “First Blood”) and Wesley Snipes (“Blade”, “Boiling Point”) go against each other in a futuristic thriller that is severely lacking in some areas.

Police officer John Spartan (Stallone) and brutal criminal Simon Phoenix (Snipes) are both cryogenically frozen and their minds are altered for when they awaken over thirty years into the future. Something has gone wrong and Phoenix is even more violent than he was before so the police of the future who are not trained for his behaviour as they live in a ‘perfect’ world enlist the help of John Spartan. Now the two must fight one another for the last time because this future isn’t big enough for the both of them.

Sylvester Stallone is quite frankly boring as John Spartan. Wesley Snipes gives one of the few decent performances as you feel like he was having fun playing the villain. Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”, “Speed”) stars as one of the future’s police officers and she spouts out loads of unfunny things such as getting phrases from the 20th century messed up and saying Arnold Schwarzenegger was President Schwarzenegger at one time. Dennis Leary (“Ice Age”) gives a good performance but he has a small amount of time on the screen.

“Demolition Man” features good action scenes and Wesley Snipes is good as the villain. It does suffer from trying very hard to be amusing, the future is perhaps a little too perfect and lots of the characters just don’t work. “Demolition Man” doesn’t do it for me and that’s a shame as the premise seems quite good but maybe the whole perfect future isn’t my thing. I admit that there is definitely more potential in a dystopian future as seen in such films as the “Mad Max” franchise and another Stallone picture named “Judge Dredd”.