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Judge Dredd (1995)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:0
Rotten:8
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Director Cannon fails to find the necessary balance to make it work.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: It is the 22nd Century, and Mega City One (formerly known as New York City), replete with flying vehicles, armored lawmen and 65 million citizens, has become a violent and anarchic land. As a... It is the 22nd Century, and Mega City One (formerly known as New York City), replete with flying vehicles, armored lawmen and 65 million citizens, has become a violent and anarchic land. As a result, the law enforcement consists of men known as judges, and each one serves as cop, judge, and occasionally executioner, allowed to mete out "justice" as he sees fit. The most elite and feared of these is the emotionless, snarling Judge Dredd. But when Dredd's clever, vile, vengeful archenemy Rico escapes from prison, he successfully frames Dredd for murder. With the judge, who has received a life sentence, out of his way, Rico begins a killing spree with judges as his special targets. But when Dredd escapes from prison and sets out to stop the deranged psycho, will a startling, familial, revelation about Rico affect his progress? [More]
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, Diane Lane
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Jürgen Prochnow, Joan Chen, Max Von Sydow, Balthazar Getty, Chris Adamson, Joanna Miles, Maurice Roeves, Ewen Bremner, Angus MacInnes, Ian Dury, Peter Marinker, Louise Delamere, Phil Smeeton, Steve Toussaint, Bradley Savelle
Director: Danny Cannon
Director: Danny Cannon
Producer: Charles M. Lippincott, Beau E.L. Marks, Andrew G. Vajna, Edward R. Pressman
Screenwriter: William Wisher, Steven E. De Souza
Story: Michael De Luca
Composer: Alan Silvestri
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Reviews for Judge Dredd
Directed without inspiration by Danny Cannon from a stupid script by Michael De Luca, William Wisher, and Steven de Souza.
Although it is full of noise and fake firepower, Dredd simply lies there on the screen until the final scenes.
Usually engaging and sympathetic, Stallone is blank and tongue-tied here, an immovable slab in the midst of 95 minutes of gunfire, explosions and Gothic excess.
The director doesn't provide much kinetic movie-making pleasure but he knows enough to jam the screen with clamor. It's not excitement, exactly. It's simulated excitement.
Sometimes, it's rather amusing, but it's impossible to decide whether this is accidental or on purpose.
Aside from the affable Schneider and the able Lane, the cast seems to be in deep shock. Um, make that Dredd lock.
Stallone survives it, but his supporting cast, also including an uninvolved Joan Chen and a tremendously intense Jurgen Prochnow, isn't well used.
Never has such a big, dumb movie seemed so small, as it shrinks from Blade Runner sharp to Jetsonian junky.
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