The movie was huge when it came out. Huge on vhs, quoted in schools, and was seen by damn near everyone between the ages of 12 and 30 during the mid 90’s.
You think anyone in the 90s wasn’t going to see a movie with Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, and Dennis Leary?
It brought in like $160,000,000 at the box office, which was pretty good back in 1993 money and for like 5 years you couldn’t go a week without it showing on one cable channel or the other.