Five Reasons Why Wesley Snipes is a Badass
3. Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man (1993)
“Wait a minute. This is the future. Where are all the phaser guns?”
Eye see you… get it?!
The quintessential homicidal maniac of the 1990’s, Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) was the bane of tough as nails super cop, John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone). When Phoenix declares South Central Los Angeles his kingdom, Spartan steps in as the only cop with the guts to take him down. The only problem is that Phoenix’s maniacal mind was prepared for Spartan’s heroism, luring the gun-ho cop into a sadistic trap that claims dozens of innocent lives. Although Phoenix was found guilty for the murders, Spartan was also assigned part of the blame and sentenced to face the same fate as Phoenix. The pair were frozen in cryo-statis for decades until Phoenix was thawed-out under mysterious circumstances and let loose to run amok in the seemingly utopian future. Phoenix’s newly programmed skills and 90’s psychopathic flair is far to formidable for the fearful and new to violence future police force. With the once eden-like city quickly succumbing to ruin and chaos, the futures only hope is to reanimate John Spartan, the “Demolition Man.”
Simon Phoenix’s thoughts on the ambient temperature of the future.
“Is it cold in here, or is it just me?”
Simon Pheonix’s encouraging words of advice to his kin in crime from the 20th century.
“I want you to loot, pillage, plunder! I want ya to steal! I want you to do all the wonderful things that we used to do before all this happened.”
Phoenix’s final words spoken mere moments before he was frozen to death by cryogenic coolant and decapitated by John Spartan.
“This is the best day of my life!”
