Demolition Manis a 1993 American dystopian , science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla , and starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes . Sandra Bullock , Nigel Hawthorne and Denis Leary co-star.

The film is a story about two men, one an evil crime lord and the other a risk-taking police officer , who are cryogenically frozen in the year 1996 and reawakened to face each other in 2032. Los Angeles , now called San Angeles following an earthquake that destroyed most of contemporary Los Angeles and San Diego , has become part of a planned city where violence is eliminated from mainstream society. Some aspects of the film allude to Aldous Huxley 's dystopian novel,Brave New World.The role of Simon Phoenix was originally offered to Jackie Chan.