A cryogenically frozen cop thaws into a relentlessly high-octane future to catch his maniacal nemesis.
Pulpy and darkly comic, with big broad humor. A party watch at full speed. Emotionally it carries some weight.
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It stays inside its R, with some innuendo or implied sex and brutal violence.
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In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
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