The story makes allusions to many other works including Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World, and H. Unable to deal with a criminal as dangerous as Phoenix, the authorities awaken Spartan to help capture him again. Society has changed and all crime has seemingly been eliminated.

Phoenix is thawed for a parole hearing in 2032, but escapes. After a failed attempt to rescue hostages from evil crime lord Simon Phoenix (Snipes), they are both sentenced to be cryogenically frozen in 1996. Stallone is John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer, who has a reputation for causing destruction while carrying out his work. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Nigel Hawthorne. 2.Demolition Man is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut. With today's pandemic shuttering restaurants across the world and hushing once vibrant cities, Demolition Man's setting is more chilling than quirky. In fact, one dining spot that remains standing – depending where you watched the film – is either Tex-Mex joint Taco Bell (for US viewers) or Pizza Hut. In the film, a massive earthquake in 2010 unleashes an endless stream of diseases and viruses that renders the streets empty and destroys the restaurant industry. Set in the fictional metropolis of San Angeles in the year 2032, the film depicts a society recovering from an environmental catastrophe. Here are five ways Demolition Man got it right. The Marco Brambilla-directed film, in which cryogenically frozen cop John Spartan (Stallone) wakes up in a future world he can't fathom, joins the likes of other sci-fis such as 2011's Contagion and 1994's The Stand in making eerily accurate observations about the world we live in today.

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