Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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)

zkonedog The problem with this movie is simple: nobody cares about Judge Dredd.For a basic plot summary, this film is set in an American future where the rule of law is enforced by "Judges", who skip trials and act as judge, jury, and executioners. When the finest of all these futuristic law-enforcers, Judge Dredd (Sylvester Stallone), is set up and put away for murder, the shady past of the Judge System is finally brought out into the light.Though Judge Dredd may be listed (according to Wikipedia) as the seventh-greatest comic book character, his appeal isn't nearly broad enough to draw in the audience needed to make this film work. When it comes to comic books, it's pretty much Batman, Superman, Spidey, X-Men, and then everybody else. Director Danny Cannon does a decent job of creating an over-the-top comic book adaptation, but unless you are familiar with the Judge Dredd world established in the comics, this film will leave you confused, bored, and severely disappointed.The acting in the film is also terrible. Stallone does little more than shout "I am...the law" multiple times and flex his huge arms while shooting automatic weapons. One has to wonder how a serious actress like Diane Lane got caught up in this dreck. Plus, can you really take any movie seriously if it includes Rob Schneider in more than a cameo role?Thus, I consider this to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and one that unless you are a "Judge Dredd nut" (which excludes roughly 99% of the population), you should avoid at pretty much all costs. Go see Demolition Man instead.

insert name here First I'd like to stress that I haven't yet read any of the original Comics, so things like Dredd taking off his mask didn't bother me as much as it would someone knowing the character.That said, the Positives: Although not particularly good the movie is still a Hollywood action film and it shows. The action is relatively good, the effects quite impressive for 1995 (expect for that flying bike chase scene), the cinematography is fine and the score while nothing spectacular well executed. Max Von Sydow being a great actor does well in his small part and Dredd's companion (I don't remember her name) is adequate. Armand Assante while not being able to be taken seriously really seems to have fun, as he cheerfully chews the scenery spouting off nonsense. One particularly great scene is when he has a shouting competition with Stallone on how to pronounce law, or as he put it: "LAW!!!"The Negatives: They decided for some reason to have a very serious plot. Instead of showing Dredd doing his Job and then an unusual problem arises and he has to take care of it alone or with a companion (like in the remake) they chose to have an "epic" confrontation between him and an Rico, where the values of their society are at stake. While it wasn't a horrible plot per say it was kind of baffling how they chose such a big and ambitious conflict for a relatively simply character. Speaking of characters let's talk about Stallone. He is quite bad. Unfortunately. You would expect he would be ideal for the character of Dredd and while he manages to do some scenes fine as well as pull off the whole "always serious" shtick he is just interesting and in some cases, over the top. For instance in the courtroom scene every time there's a close up he extenuates his chin. It's ridiculous, it's like he knows he has a good chin and wants everyone to witness it or he's doing it as joke. Speaking of jokes the comic relief is Rob Schneider. He's talent-less, unfunny, annoying and a pain in the ass both for the audience and the characters them-self. Why was he even in this? Also that ABC robot or whatever they're call looks ridiculous thank's to it's chin. You can't really be threatening with a design like that. The suit the judges wear while looks the part is too over the top and glossy for it to be realistically used in the battlefield. I would have also preferred a bit more blood. It was the 90s, you could still make money with R rated films although that's really the filmmakers fault.In the End if you are a big Stallone fun and don't mind cheesy lines and bad comic relief give it a shot. If not you can still watch it as a bad example of a comic based film.

bkoganbing One thing I did like about Judge Dredd is that most futuristic science fiction films only put their events maybe decades away and in film we've seen enough over past decades to know thing didn't turn out quite as predicted. Judge Dredd is set safely several centuries in the future so by then if things don't turn out as abysmally for the earth no one is around for an I told you so.This is one dismal future. We've not reached the stars, we've poisoned our own planet and the population is now all urban dwellers. I didn't see anything on how food was provided, presumably we're all eating Soylent products. But with the kind of crowding in these domed cities law and order is a problem.A lid is being kept on with a system of judges. But don't expect learned written opinions from these guys. They are police, judge, and executioner. Stallone is a guy who dispenses summary judgment in his court of the streets, very few appeals are made. Rooster Cogburn would have liked this system.But Stallone himself is accused of murder, but he's given a life sentence at a penal colony in Aspen. Nevertheless he escapes and finds out who put him in the jackpot with the help of fellow judge Diane Lane and petty criminal Rob Schneider.The villain here is Armand Assante who has appeared in several of Sly's films. Let's say he has a plan of reforming the system that will bring real law and order to the world according to him.Sly over the years has developed a light touch and it's applied in Judge Dredd when needed. Imagine Rambo dispensing summary judgment and you have Judge Dredd.