The Verdict's In

Judge Dredd was one of those big budget action films that was aiming high, but ended up bombing and getting ridiculed, and forgotten quite fast. Movies like The Shadow and The Phantom also fell victim to this. I sometimes have a soft spot for these overblown superhero movies that fail miserably. While Judge Dredd isn't great(I could strangle Rob Schneider), it's kinda fun in that cheesy way. You can say what you want about Stallone, but he played the part cold and lifeless coz I'm assuming that's how the character is. I don't know how accurate an adaptation the film is coz my knowledge of Judge Dredd lore is limited to Anthrax's I Am The law song. I will say Armand Assante makes for a pretty cool villain and the robot is rather impressive. It looks like a cross of cgi and animatronics, which is a combo severely lacking in movies. Storywise, it's rather cliche and predictable(tell me you didn't figure out the villain behind the chaos ten minutes into the film), but what comic-action movie isn't? Judge Dredd may go down in history as a bloated failure for Stallone, director Cannon, and movies in general, but it's all the more fun for it.

There was a comic?!

In all honest I had NO idea there was a comic book of this when Judge Dredd came out. I was only 10 years old when the movie came out and I still remember it to the day that this movie was just hands down fantastic. To me, this movie was like The Fifth Element of its time and I feel as though the aesthetics to The Fifth Element should pay a huge amount of homage to Judge Dredd (as well as Bladerunner but that's a given). Had I knew about the comic then even as a kid, I would've given some props up to the tribute it made but because I didn't, I still acclaim this as an idea all its own and to this day, I still haven't read a single page of Judge Dredd, and I kind of don't want to because I love the stellar performance that Sly puts in with Joseph Dredd.

The movie, despite being a hardcore 90's action movie has elements I overlooked as a kid and now that I'm much older, I've noticed things I never noticed or rememberred and it felt like a brand new movie to me with the reminiscence of it being so much familiar. It has every little bit of action movie I remember being cool back in the day and all that movies today can barely mark up to; some people may hate it, alot of people may love it, a majority may be null about it, but to me this movie is a classic and one of Sylvester Stallone's BEST performances on the big screen.

'I AM THE LAW!!!"

Rocks!

I really enjoyed this movie. Stallone does a good job in his role as Dredd, based on the comic book character. All the acting was good, the plot was great and it combined action and humor well. Very entertaining.