Making over $150 million on a budget of around $57 million, it wasn’t a Cliffhanger-sized hit, but it did the kind of numbers for Warner Bros to consider a second chapter. The film remains quite possible one of the most enjoyable in Stallone’s filmography, with well shot fight sequences and Snipes in particular having an absolute ball with the material. Nigel Hawthorne, who famously hated the film and only agreed to make it in order to get the funding to put his towering performance on film in Alan Bennett’s The Madness Of King George, which we delved into in more depth here, co-stars as main antagonist Dr. He teams up with Bullock’s Lieutenant Lenina Huxley (named after Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World) to defeat him. Unable to stop him, authorities release Spartan, who has to adapt to a future for which he is woefully unprepared. In 1932, Phoenix escapes after being thawed out for a parole hearing. After a failed attempt to rescue hostages, both are cryogenically frozen. The film follows Stallone’s John Spartan who, in 1996, clashes with nemesis Simon Phoenix, played with great relish by Snipes. Plus, a healthy dose of sci-fi, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock on fine form, and some of the best zingers of Sly’s career. A return to the musclebound, stoic action hero with which Stallone made his name.
Yet ask most of us to pick our favourite of his 1993 features and it’s Demolition Man all the way. A sizeable return to action kicked things off, with Cliffhanger. That turned out to be his biggest hit of the year, and it’s a movie that’s endured. He only ended up taking on the latter too when Arnold Schwarzenegger falsely declared interest in the movie, in part to just see if Stallone would take it. The critical and commercial failure of Rocky V, Oscar and Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot! had taken their toll. He entered the 1990s and his box office powers were apparently in one-way decline.
Try three issues of Film Stories magazine – for just £1!: right here!ġ993 served as something as a career comeback year for Sylvester Stallone, as he turned around one of the – arf – rockiest parts of his career.
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