TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Scott LeBrun Big budget, major studio adaptation of a beloved cult sci-fi comic book takes place in a Dystopian future, where populations are crowded into massive "Mega Cities" and the main form of law enforcement consists of "Judges" - bike riding officers who are empowered to act as judge, jury, *and* executioner, all in one. The most feared and legendary of them all is Judge Joseph Dredd (Sly Stallone), who ends up framed for the murder of a crusading reporter (top character actor Mitchell Ryan). Dredd is able to escape transport to prison, uniting with a goofy low rent criminal named Fergie (Rob Schneider) and heading for an inevitable confrontation with a megalomaniac named Rico (Armand Assante, hamming it up like there's no tomorrow).It's understandable that purists will take some exception to this adaptation and greatly prefer the 2012 feature film version (starring Karl Urban as Dredd). But the 1995 "Judge Dredd" does attempt to give people their money's worth. There's lots of hard-edged action, a non-stop assortment of razzle-dazzle futuristic images (utilizing what was then cutting-edge CGI), an ominous music score by Alan Silvestri, some entertaining characters, and great costumes. The plot is nothing special, but is not hard to follow, as it centers on a conspiracy where a ruling Council tried to play God, and ended up with a mess on their hands.Sly doesn't have to stretch himself here, getting to play a rough and tough and VERY stoic man of action who thinks that having emotions is key to getting a person killed. Adding the humanity is lovely Diane Lane as a fellow Judge who proves to be completely loyal. Schneiders' comedy relief may be a matter of personal taste; although not generally appreciated, this viewer found him to be at least mildly funny and not unlikeable.The excellent supporting cast includes such luminaries as Max von Sydow, Jurgen Prochnow, Joan Chen (who's under-utilized), and Joanna Miles, with ever-wonderful von Sydow coming off the best. Other familiar faces like Ewen Bremner and Angus MacInnes turn up. Making uncredited contributions are James Earl Jones (who reads the opening narration), James Remar (as a block warlord), and 'The Walking Dead's' Scott Wilson as Pa Angel. (And that's one thing that this viewer did appreciate about this film version: the presence of the desert-dwelling, degenerate Angel family.)Overall, colourful entertainment that may indeed play like a video game, but it's certainly never boring.Six out of 10.

bheadher I know alot of people just don't like Sly, and I understand that purist comicbook fans just won't like the screen version of Dredd...but darn !!!Judge Dredd was intended as a visual fantasy, really weird and out there in the ozone movie, and it delivers that feel in spades...sure, the dialog is bizarre, but that simply makes this fun. Sure, the backdrop is bizarre, and that is exactly the way it is supposed to be, It is fun, plain and simple...Darn it people, it is a slapstick couple hours of fun entertainment, that doesn't conform to any preconceived notions of how a popcorn style, shoot 'em up movie should be...so just sit back and enjoy the fun...

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Judge Dredd" (1995)One of the early real solid graphic novel adaptation with a fulminate cast throughout, starting with actor Sylvester Stallone, embracing his trademarks to comic extensions, creating the title-given character bold and righteous with occasional flight of humour, stroke by his supporting characters Hershey and Fergie, portrayed by Diane Lane and stand-up comedian Rob Schneider respectively, already given recent Marvel comic adaptations the formula of international box office successes without reaching this picture's balance between the dark of suggested-hardcore violence with R-rated visuals and the light of a extroverted costume design for the judges by Jean-Paul Gaultier executed for further set operations by costume designer Emma Porteous, which makes a brilliant figure in enriching texture and character subconsciously in addition to Adrian Biddle's cinematography and Nigel Phelps' production design.That this 70 Million Dollar production directed by a 26-year-old Danny Cannon, who works nowadays in U.S. television for as show-running director for episodes of "Gotham", still hails its relevance 22 years after a disappointing summer release on June 30th 1995 at the box office, and further never quite received the cult status which it might deserve, has been due to some MPAA regulations that certain scene, especially the fight scene between Dredd's nemesis brother Rico, mesmerizing portrayed by actor Armand Assante, had to be cut as rumor has it because of some inconceivable shots of half-breed clones charging for attack in a secret Mega City laboratory. In that sense the 90 minutes cut by under pressure appearing editor Harry Keramidas and substituted by Alex Mackie feels to this very day incomplete with the internal desire to be improved to make "Judge Dredd" an epic as it deserves to be due to a fallen, governmental-judged, desert-abandoned and risen-again storyline of the leading character's arc, Judge Dredd himself.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

classicsoncall This film was panned pretty heavily by critics when it first came out, and like a lot of movies I've held off watching for just that reason, it turned out to be entertaining enough to have disregarded the naysayers. What you have to do perhaps, is go in with the idea that the film makers were going for camp value by putting Judge Dredd on screen, and in that regard, the picture can probably be deemed a success. Sylvester Stallone was a solid choice to portray the title character because he has that brooding, stoic look going for him, and who better to effect a character with no emotion who's only interest is in carrying out the law.Armand Assante, who portrayed Stallone's brother in 1978's "Paradise Alley", is teamed back up with him as a brother again of sorts. It's revealed that both were the experimental result of the Janus Project, a government program gone wrong and put to rest nine years earlier. Judge Dredd was the intended outcome of Janus, but Assante's Rico had a programming anomaly that made him a violent criminal. As I write this, an inconsistency in the story presents itself, in as much as Rico knew he wasn't human, whereas Dredd did not. I didn't pick up on that while watching, but it's more than evident if you think about it.The biggest surprise for this viewer that the movie had to offer was the strength of the supporting cast for what's nominally a popcorn flick promising over the top action and a requisite amount of explosives. You've got Jurgen Prochnow, Max von Sydow and Diane Lane in principal roles, no slouches when it comes to actors who've made their mark in much more prominent films. The one concession to the popcorn crowd would have been including Rob Schneider as somewhat of a comedic sidekick to the droll Judge Dredd. There were any number of times I thought Dredd might have squashed him like a bug, but in the end he served a fanboy purpose.I think I may have read all of one Judge Dredd comic book, so I don't know if humor played any part in their regular story lines, but I did find the occasional cultural references in the picture to be amusing, like the street corners of Abbott and Costello and Burns and Allen. I found Rico's comment about guilt and innocence to be a matter of timing as quite an intriguing concept, and even though the Mega-City presented in the story appeared to be entirely lawless, I found the admonition to 'Be kind to each other' played over and over again on the city's broadcast system as more than slightly ironic. However someone still needs to get back to me on the idea of 'recycled food'. What the heck would that be?