Directed by: Marco Brambilla
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Benjamin Bratt, Nigel Hawthorne
Raymond Cocteau is killed by Phoenix, who tries to re-animate the entire cryoprison to start a new reign of terror. Spartan arrives at the cryoprison and causes the unstable Phoenix to destroy it while trying to kill him. In the process, Phoenix is frozen and then Spartan kicks off his head, killing him. Spartan tells Chief George Earle and Edgar Friendly to accomodate each other and form a new government to replace the late Cocteau. Spartan finally gets to kiss Huxley over the credits.
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Continuity mistake: When Spartan and Huxley arrive at the cryogenics place to battle Phoenix and what remains of his gang, Phoenix sees them on the monitor walking into the building and you see Spartan on the left and Huxley on the right. The camera angle changes to an inside view and Spartan is now on the right. (01:38:35)
John Spartan: Brake! Brake! Brake now, you Mickey Mouse-piece of shit!
Question: When the building with the hostages gets destroyed, Simon tells the police that he told John where the bodies were, with John responding that he didn't care. Clearly a blatant lie - why would the police actually take the word of a murdering psychopath like Simon considering that he would do or say anything to save himself?
Answer: They didn't. They found the bodies and knowing how badly John wanted to take down Simon, they assumed Simon was telling the truth. I always felt that there was an assumption that Simon also had other planted evidence to frame John but that is never confirmed, just my hunch.
Answer: Spartan didn't have authorization to go in and apprehend Phoenix to begin with. Depending on the time and manner of deaths of the hostages, it may have been impossible for the authorities to determine that they were already dead before Spartan went in guns blazing, so it would be determined that he was criminally negligent in their deaths. Whatever Phoenix had to say on the matter probably didn't even factor into Spartan's trial.
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