Demolition Man is a movie that should have been fun, and isn't.

Ultimately the script's often sharp social satire is drowned out by the noise and confusion. It is also undercut by casting virtually all the psychopathically murderous criminals as minority-group members.

Nearly all the SF premises are accorded the status of Andrew Dice Clay one-liners -- which means that they, along with the characters, keep changing from one scene to the next.

Maybe Demolition Man doesn’t offer the pure action hit of The Terminator, but it’s one of the few big-budget, numbskull action-flicks that actually offer some kind of wry, intelligent critique of societal change...