

After Spartan scans the building for heat signatures and finds only eight - those of Phoenix's lackeys - he determines that the hostages are not in the building and attempts to capture Phoenix. In 1996, Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant John Spartan leads a raid to save captured victims from the violent criminal Simon Phoenix.

Some aspects of the film allude to Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World. Following a massive earthquake in 2010 that destroyed much of Los Angeles, it merged with San Diego to form a planned city called San Angeles in which all crime has seemingly been eliminated from mainstream society. The film tells the story of two men - one, an evil crime lord the other, a risk-taking police officer - who are cryogenically frozen in the year 1996 and reawakened in 2032. Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, and Denis Leary co-star.

Demolition Man is a 1993 American, science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla, and starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes.
