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  Review by DirkH ★★ 7

  Oh no! No no no no no no no no!

  You did NOT just take off your helmet.

  Unforgivable.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★ 3

  Not quite as bad as I remembered, but not much better. And whoever thought this material needed wacky comic relief at all, much less wacky comic relief in the form of loudmouth Rob Schneider, should be banned from filmmaking.

  Still there's some '90s comic-book production design par excellence buried beneath the cheese, and this version isn't *that* far removed from the much better 2012 DREDD with Karl Urban. Plus, I have a hard time totally hating a movie that features a Judge Dredd costume designed by Gianni Versace that includes an enormous metallic codpiece, and a final fight that takes place in the crown of the Statue of Liberty and includes the line "I'll be the judge of that."

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  Review by Ian West ★★★ 3

  Thoroughly enjoyable goofball 90’s action sci-fi comic swill… its dumb as hell with a stacked cast and feels like it was made a million years ago but I dunno… it’s better than I remembered and moronic fun.

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★ 4

  "I'm the only one that ever liked you."
  "I'll be the judge of that."

  I decided to watch this because I'm writing a paper on the 2012 Dredd and thought it might be interesting to see the differences, and boy are there a lot of differences. I don't know anything about the comics, but I get the feeling that when Rob Schneider interrupted Sylvester Stallone and Diane Lane's heartfelt discussion about Dredd's feelings to inform them that he fixed the microwave and made popcorn, fans might have felt slightly betrayed. Somewhere along the line in production, some genius decided it would be a great idea to add in some comic relief, and what could have at least been a campy…

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  Review by stargrovestamos ★★ 2

  This film has two serious problems:

  1) Rob
  2) Schneider

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  Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★

  rob schneider shut the fuck up

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  Review by Deckk ★★★★ 3

  100-word review: 2080 Earth is a wasteland, and the world's population lives bottled up in megacities, where law and order is enforced by judge-jury-and-executioners known as Judges. Best of them all is our titular hero Dredd, who find himself framed for murder. I'm the weirdo who likes both films (this, and the 2012 remake), and — what makes me a real weirdo — maybe this version a little bit better? Controversy aside, I see the cult action big-fun-time that most fail to see here, and I'm happy as f*** about that. Me and my friends had an AWESOME time!

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  Review by Cosmixx ★★

  I gotta say the best thing about this movie was that they had The Cure playing in the credits 🖤

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★½

  As a goofy dumb fun slice of sci-fi shoot-'em-up junk food, Judge Dredd admittedly doesn't fail to entertain, with its top-notch visuals and (mostly) enjoyably over-the-top performances, but as an adaptation of the beloved comic book character of the same name, it completely falls apart, neutering the source material's gritty tone and satirical elements to make way for jarring and obnoxious comedic relief, in particular the insufferable Rob Schneider.

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  Review by theironcupcake ★★★ 6

  "I... AM.... THE LAW!"

  Big, dumb, and I guess it's mostly fun? I remember liking Sylvester Stallone's previous foray into dystopian action-adventure, Demolition Man, a lot more, probably because he plays an actual human being rather than a sociological experiment. Still, Sly and his government-issued unitard did pretty well at keeping my interest piqued; I could've done without the detour into cannibal cult territory (led by Scott Wilson of all people) and I'm not exactly sure what Dredd has actually learned by the end, or what lessons he's supposed to take into his daily routine as a lawgiver (I'm leaning towards "few to none"), but at least he looks good in his Versace-designed armor. And hey, there's Angus MacInnes in the cast again!

  ...Still would've been a better film with the barn-burning Manic Street Preachers song that was supposed to be on the soundtrack, though.

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  Review by Carlo V 5

  Stuff like this is my childhood, and randomly catching it on TV is just about the most perfect way to experience it. An analog, hilariously over-budgeted, hammy Stallone vanity project.

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  Review by Rizz ★ 13

  I got into the Judge Dredd Comics shortly after purchasing Anthrax’s Among the Living (featuring the song “I am the Law, dedicated to the character) sometime in 1989. So by the time I saw this when it hit theaters the summer after I graduated from high school, I thought it was an abject joke of a film and a total insult to the comics. I remember an issue where Dredd is attacked while taking a bubble bath and he still never removed his helmet ffs. I’d say Stallone wears it for maybe 6 minutes of this cinematic slap in the face to the source material. 

  Well, surprise, surprise, this Stallone mid-life crisis vanity project is even worse than I remembered.…