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Judge Dredd (1995)

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Reviews Counted:8

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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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03/26/09
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Directed without inspiration by Danny Cannon from a stupid script by Michael De Luca, William Wisher, and Steven de Souza.

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04/25/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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Although it is full of noise and fake firepower, Dredd simply lies there on the screen until the final scenes.

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05/20/03
Caryn James
Caryn James
New York Times
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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.

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06/18/02
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

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02/13/01
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Los Angeles Times
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Sometimes, it's rather amusing, but it's impossible to decide whether this is accidental or on purpose.

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James Berardinelli
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Aside from the affable Schneider and the able Lane, the cast seems to be in deep shock. Um, make that Dredd lock.

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Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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Stallone survives it, but his supporting cast, also including an uninvolved Joan Chen and a tremendously intense Jurgen Prochnow, isn't well used.

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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Never has such a big, dumb movie seemed so small, as it shrinks from Blade Runner sharp to Jetsonian junky.

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Susan Wloszczyna
Susan Wloszczyna
USA Today
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