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Demolition Man (1993) • Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD [Arrow Video] — Stallone’s lighthearted sci-fi hit has matured into an endearing romp

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who’s escaped into a non-violent future society.

Sylvester Stallone’s heyday was the 1980s, as a poster boy for the decade’s brand of musclebound machismo. While his career truly went stratospheric thanks to writing and starring in the Academy Award-winning boxing drama Rocky (1976), only a few years later Stallone found his true calling as an action hero thanks to the success of First Blood (1982). And both those films begat franchises that, to some extent, epitomised 1980s cinema. The 1990s were the beginning of the end for Stallone as a box-office megastar, in the wake of the trilogy-ending Rambo III (1988) and the colossal disappointment of Rocky V (1990), but a last hurrah came in 1993 with the dual successes of Cliffhanger and Demolition Man.