This film differs from the comic in some key ways, for me the liberties they took with the setting are just too much to make this an enjoyable movie.
Judges don't execute people unless they have to. The sentence for killing a judge is life without parole, not death. Judges are obliged to issue a warning to perps.
Judges are almost impossible to bribe as they're generally depicted as living in the sector house and having everything provided for them by the city. If you did manage to bribe a whole squad of them you wouldn't be paying them in dollars as the nuclear war wiped out that currency. You know, these details cost nothing to get right.
The city services are run by a supercomputer, not a call center.
Judges ride amazing looking motorbikes, not scramblers with a bit of fiberglass glued to them. They don't use them to chase Nissan minivans.
If a PSI-judge can read someone's mind why is keeping him alive to interrogate him a big issue? She should be able to do it there and then.
That's just the tip of the pedantic iceberg. I'm a fan of Judge Dredd so to me this film was just wrong in too many ways to be entertaining. If you just want a fairly watchable and violent action movie then it's not a bad movie but I was looking for a Judge Dredd film and this is just too far from the source material to do it for me.
Judges don't execute people unless they have to. The sentence for killing a judge is life without parole, not death. Judges are obliged to issue a warning to perps.
Judges are almost impossible to bribe as they're generally depicted as living in the sector house and having everything provided for them by the city. If you did manage to bribe a whole squad of them you wouldn't be paying them in dollars as the nuclear war wiped out that currency. You know, these details cost nothing to get right.
The city services are run by a supercomputer, not a call center.
Judges ride amazing looking motorbikes, not scramblers with a bit of fiberglass glued to them. They don't use them to chase Nissan minivans.
If a PSI-judge can read someone's mind why is keeping him alive to interrogate him a big issue? She should be able to do it there and then.
That's just the tip of the pedantic iceberg. I'm a fan of Judge Dredd so to me this film was just wrong in too many ways to be entertaining. If you just want a fairly watchable and violent action movie then it's not a bad movie but I was looking for a Judge Dredd film and this is just too far from the source material to do it for me.