Synopsis
In the future, one man is the law.
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
1995 Directed by Danny Cannon
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Sylvester Stallone Diane Lane Armand Assante Rob Schneider Jürgen Prochnow Max von Sydow Christopher Adamson Joanna Miles Joan Chen Balthazar Getty Maurice Roëves Ian Dury Ewen Bremner Peter Marinker Martin McDougall Mitchell Ryan Scott Wilson Angus MacInnes Louise Delamere Phil Smeeton Steve Toussaint Bradley Lavelle Mark Morghan Ed Stobart Huggy Leaver Lex Daniel John Blakey Howard Grace Dig Wayne Show All…
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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.
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."
"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…
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!
I gotta say the best thing about this movie was that they had The Cure playing in the credits 🖤
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.
"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.
As A adaptation of the comics it fails and has flaws, its light, comedic tone is not at all like the dark, political satirical feel of the 2000ad comic (and he also takes off his helmet in this film which never happened in the comics which i know fans found it an offense but it doesnt bother me and i like the comics)but this succeeds as an awesome stallone action film, has that 90s big budget comic book film look, has a cult film feel to it, has awesome visuals and production design that brings mega city to life with some nice apocalyptic looking western desert and Alan silvestris epic, exciting winning score. It's also stallone on top form in…
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.