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.

• DirectorMarco Brambilla
• Release8 October 1993
• Genre
  Crime / Action
• Duration1h 55m
• Budget$57,000,000
• Revenue$159,055,768
• Rate
  

  6.7
  3839 reviews
• Productions

  Silver Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures