Demolition Man (1993)

  I think I kept getting this one confused with Judge Dredd since they're both set in futuristic worlds, both have Rob Schneider, both predominated by the color grey and both star Stallone.  It's been so long since I'd seen either one of them that it all kept blurring together.

In 1992, psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) and his arch-nemesis LAPD Officer John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) both go into cryogenic freeze as part of a new rehabilitation program for criminals.  Nearly forty years later, Simon is thawed out for a parole board and finds himself imprinted with all the information he needs to escape from prison.  The police force have not had to deal with a criminal of Simon's caliber in a generation and are woefully unprepared.  The Chief of Police (Bob Gunton) authorizes excitable Lieutenant Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) to un-freeze Spartan and reinstate him.  Spartan finds himself practically an alien in a city that has become unrecognizable and must quickly adapt in order to track down Phoenix.

This movie is definitely the better of the two Stallone vehicles.  The villain is more memorable and the humor holds up better.  Not perfectly, you understand, but better.  Plus, there's a young Benjamin Bratt and who couldn't use more of that in their lives?  Also, Denis Leary.  You're going to have to forgive a lot about the story, however.  Everything about cryogenics, for a start, and the forty year timeline is ridiculous.  Most 90's movies suffer from flaws like this.  It was a simpler time, a time when we valued big explosions and witty quips over plots.  We liked our action heroes big and dumb with the moral center of a feral cat.  As long as you're okay with that, you'll like this movie.