In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
I have seen the cheesy yet fun "Judge Dredd" (1995) and the legendary "RoboCop" that was sort of a detour from what they had envisioned "Dredd" to be decades ago... and I thought there was no way this could compare to them. I was half right.
There is no matching "RoboCop", and I will pretend it was not remade. But this "Dredd" has some very likable things to it, and makes the Judge out to be more than just an assassin with a gun. There is still some cheese (though much darker cheese than in the Stallone version). But somehow it all seems to work.
I have seen the cheesy yet fun "Judge Dredd" (1995) and the legendary "RoboCop" that was sort of a detour from what they had envisioned "Dredd" to be decades ago... and I thought there was no way this could compare to them. I was half right.
There is no matching "RoboCop", and I will pretend it was not remade. But this "Dredd" has some very likable things to it, and makes the Judge out to be more than just an assassin with a gun. There is still some cheese (though much darker cheese than in the Stallone version). But somehow it all seems to work.