That can be said for all the denizens of this future world, including Rob Schneider! Man he really didn't move upward after this did he? (As a side note Jack Black also appears as an extra in this movie, he's one of the cowering filthy sewer people!) I also enjoy the fact that in this future world, Arnold Schwarzenegger was president. ![]() Sandra Bullock plays a police officer in this future society who is obsessed with the sexy violence of the past, and is also a complete spaz. Instead people apparently somehow use 3 seashells, and how that would be practical in sanitation has haunted me since I first saw this movie, so more or less for my entire life. My personal favorite unexplained detail is the lack of toilet paper in bathrooms. Sex and kissing are illegal, as is swearing (automatic machines dispense citations). Also the only music is old commercial jingles. I like to imagine that these were actual wars, with lines of people in fast food outfits killing each other with laser guns. I mean that literally: After something they refer to as the franchise wars, only Taco Bell remained. Apparently every restaurant in this world is a Taco Bell for instance. That is not to say that the movie skimps on emphasizing in a goofy fashion just how goody goody the future world is, and how different it is. This movie definitely delivers in that department, with exploding buildings, gunfights, a scene involving a laser gun, and a finale where Wesley Snipes gets frozen with liquid nitrogen and then smashed to pieces. Sometimes you want to just watch a movie where stuff gets blown up while the good guy fights the bad guy. When you spend 50% of the time being an action movie, and another 50% trying to be a weighty drama, what you end up with is a muddled mess that doesn't give you a clear impression of anything. A lot of more recent action films try to add some degree of political, social, or scientific reflection to their proceedings, in a half-hearted poorly thought out fashion that only detracts from the film. The idea that a self-contained society completely devoid of violence would spring up and sustain itself within the space of 30 years for instance is patently absurd, but you're just supposed to say "okay I guess that's the world they live in." I think really that action movies that are about explosions are better off that way. You aren't really expected to think hard about any of the wackier aspects of the world this movie is set in, and honestly it's probably better if you don't, given that a lot of the movies premise isn't terrifically thought out once you go past the surface layer. While there is a profound amount of science fiction on display here, not least of which is a bizarre future society with cryo-prison, the science fiction aspects of this movie exist more or less only to facilitate the profound amounts of destruction that Snipes and Stallone wreak while they duke it out. ![]() This movie is in my mind representative in a big way of 90s action movies.
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