Sylvester Stallone is the Demolition Man; a no-nonsense, hard-nosed cop of limited wordage who doesn't believe in treading lightly. Framed for the manslaughter of multiple hostages by a psychopathic career criminal who looks remarkably like Wesley Snipes, the cat and mouse share the same incarcerated fate for their involvement. In 1996 they are cryogenically frozen, subjected to 36 years of subliminal rehabilitation therapy before being revived for a parole hearing. Phoenix (probably played by Snipes in fact), escapes into a seemingly utopian Brave New World where crime has been eliminated. With no experience of real crimefighting, present-day cops are as much use as a chocolate teapot, obliging the powers that be to release Sly into the community to recapture him and restore law and order.
Two years following the theatrical unveiling of the 1993 movie, a licensed platformer of the same name was defrosted for the Genesis, SEGA CD, and SNES courtesy of game developers, Alexandria. A frenetic, 2D, scrolling shoot 'em up action tie-in that manages to improve upon the low bar set by its source material. I risk frostbite to connect the dots, assessing their respective merits side by side.
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