


Thirty-six years later, in 2032, the Southern California cities of Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Diego have all merged to form San Angeles after the big 2010 earthquake decimated most of the coastal cities. Spartan receives a 70-year sentence, which includes behavior alterations while the convicts “sleep.” Both Phoenix and Spartan are placed in cryo chambers and frozen for their crimes. Through his actions, Spartan triggers an explosion that decimates the entire building, but both he and Phoenix survive–the latter accusing him of sacrificing the hostages’ lives to get at Phoenix. He is a one man army, easily dispatching the henchmen, but finds no hostages–only Phoenix. Spartan is attempting to rescue 30 hostages taken by Phoenix. In Los Angeles, in 1996, LAPD officer John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) single-handedly enters a warehouse where notorious gangster Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) is holed up.
