![]() ![]() In one of the film's funnier scenes, Sgt. Stallone capably plays a brusque buffoon who has to get used to a world where he wasn't welcome. The action is great, and the sci-fi intriguing, but the culture clash is where its heart lies. Overall, however, Brambilla's film is a comedy first. It may have an essayic undercurrent of conservatism run amok, and the dangers of a right wing-extrapolated utopia (it came out during the Clinton administration, but the fears lingered). Indeed, the spirit of prankstership likely informed "Demolition Man" as a whole. Golf tees up his nose, and Bullock is at ease. While Stallone may not have been a student of the Meisner technique, he clearly had enough wherewithal to keep the tone on set light, and to retain his sense of humor.
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