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DEMOLITION MAN – Elliot Goldenthal
THROWBACK THIRTY
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Mellow greetings. What seems to be your boggle?
One of my favorite action movies of the 1990s is Demolition Man, directed by Marco Brambilla from a screenplay by Peter Lenkov, Daniel Waters, and Robert Reneau (the latter of whom might be better known to readers as ‘Scott Bettencourt,’ a regular contributor to Film Score Monthly magazine). It’s a dystopian, futuristic sci-fi story with a heavy dose of satire and social commentary, interspersed with several outstanding action set pieces. The film stars Sylvester Stallone as John Spartan, a renegade LAPD cop from the 1990s known as the “demolition man” for his unorthodox and sometimes brutal law enforcement tactics, especially when it comes down to catching his arch-nemesis, violent criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). After one such confrontation Phoenix is captured and cryogenically frozen in a ‘cryo-prison’ as punishment – but Spartan is framed for a murder he did not commit, and is frozen alongside him. In 2032, Phoenix somehow breaks out of the prison and emerges into ‘San Angeles,’ a utopian, peaceful, politically correct society run by the benevolent yet controlling Dr. Raymond Cocteau (Nigel Hawthorne). However, when Phoenix resumes his life of crime in a city with a police force that is simply unable to deal with his violence, Spartan is thawed out too, and teams up with Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock), a 2030s police officer who idolizes 1990s culture, to stop him. Read more…
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