
He is a Dudley-do-right without the wherewithal to set right what is soon to go wrong. Her colleague, Alfredo Garcia, played with Eagle Scout earnestness by Benjamin Bratt, epitomizes the new order of things. This is, indeed, a "brave new world" and Lenina Huxley, played with delicious comic abandon by Sandra Bullock, is a police woman who waxes nostalgic for the past. Raymond Cocteau, who is played with sage aplomb by the late Nigel Hawthorne.

Los Angeles is no more, having merged with San Diego into a new entity known as San Angeles, which is ruled by the architect of the new society, Dr. Guns are outlawed, as is all physical violence. The police of the future have nothing in common with the police of the past. The location is California, and the police just ain't what they used to be, as the future is a sanitized, politically correct world, where only the most benign behavior is the standard by which all live. "This is an enormously entertaining film that is slyly intelligent, chock full of action, and quite humorous. In any case, even if you don't like action movies very much, I think you will like this one." Sometimes I wonder if San Angeles is the kind of world people in the family values crowd would like to live in. But that's another story.I think that San Angeles is a funny bone-tickling example of political correctness gone to far. Huxley that made me think of her as my favorite actress for a while. Perhaps it's because of her airy portrayal of Lt. This was also the first movie I ever saw with Sandra Bullock. The special effects will blow you away all by themselves. The only solution is to bring Spartan out of the freezer, which is exactly what happens.This movie introduced me to action movies, particularly Stallone movies, and the movie soundtrack genre. (There is also no profanity, and anyone who swears is fined for violations of the Verbal Morality Statute.) Consequently, people have forgotten how to deal with a fugitive like Phoenix. The only problem is that the LA that Spartan, Phoenix, and the rest of us all know and love has turned into a megalopolis called San Angeles, a politically correct paradise where there is absolutely no violent crime-correction, no crime of any kind-whatsoever. Phoenix, who was imprisoned in the same facility, escapes and begins to reinvigorate his reign of terror.


Spartan is stripped of his rank and sentenced to cryogenic imprisonment for 70 years.2032: Spartan has served 36 years of his sentence.

John Spartan (Stallone) has been after this guy for several years, but in the process of finally arresting Phoenix, the building around them explodes, appartently taking several innocent hostages up with it. Crime abounds, with the most notorious bad guy around, Simon Phoenix(Wesley Snipes) taking it all in like one big joke. "1996: The city of Los Angeles is an absolute wreck.
