To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Nermar (Noxeema Jackson)Īfter starring in macho movies like Demolition Man, New Jack City, and Passenger 57, the next move for Wesley Snipes was obviously to throw on a wig and dress in drag. Between this and Money Train, I put Snipes right up there with other action stars of the ‘90s like Jackie Chan, Stallone, and Schwarzenegger. Not by a long shot, and Snipes’ coolness lifts this film off the ground to create a badass action movie that is often quite silly, but always awesome. But Wesley Snipes is not the mystery that is Steven Seagal. Passenger 57 could have dovetailed and been an airborne version of Under Siege. But you already knew that, right? It’s pretty much this film’s most famous line of dialogue. Remember that “always bet on black” line I used in the intro? Yeah, that’s from this movie. It probably went something like this: It’s like Die Hard … but on a plane! Because that pretty much sums up the plot of Passenger 57, which single-handedly made Wesley Snipes an action star overnight. I can already picture the elevator pitch for Passenger 57. The film starred Stallone and Snipes alongside Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Denis Leary and Rob Schneider.(Image credit: Warner Bros. RELATED: Did Sylvester Stallone Star in Rocky Due to a Case of Mistaken Identity?ĭespite receiving mixed reviews at the time, Demolition Man has since gained a cult following for its sociopolitical satire, lampooning ideologies of both the American Left and Right. With the police now ill-equipped to subdue violent criminals like Phoenix anymore, Spartan is thawed out to capture his old enemy.
However, Phoenix escapes custody in the far future of 2032, a crime-free society whose utopian success has come at the expense of restricting anything deemed offensive, including swearing, drinking and even physical intimacy. over four films, including Demolition Man.ĭemolition Man starred Stallone as John Spartan, an LAPD officer from 1997 who, following a hostage crisis gone wrong, is cryogenically frozen as punishment alongside the criminal who committed it: Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). This announcement comes almost a year after Stallone settled a profit dispute with Warner Bros.
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