Judge Dredd

Starring: Armand Assante, Sylvester Stallone Director: Danny Cannon Original UK Premiere: 1995 Dvd Release: 6th December, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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Judge Dredd is a 1995 action film based on the Judge Dredd strip in the British comic 2000 AD. Fans however were highly critical of this film, largely regarding it as a failure. Certain elements of the film were altered from the comic series, but it still did not find wide mainstream appeal. Stallone won the 1995 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor based on his work in this film & Assassins. The film received an MPAA rating of R for continuous violent action. It was in color with Dolby digital sound. One man is Judge, Jury & Executioner. & In the future, one man is the law. Judge Joseph Dredd is a street judge in a violent future world. He becomes convicted of a crime he did not commit by his main enemy Rico, and, aided by a prisoner that he previously helped to convict, attempts to clear his name. Dredd is also assisted by a Judge Fargo for some time. Posters Of Judge Dredd

Judge Dredd is one of those movies that doesnt have a brain of its own, so it can only rip off a lot of ingredients from other, better movies. Its a mishmash of Blade Runner, Total Recall, & The Road Warrior, with a dash of Star Wars tossed in for good measure. As if that werent enough, its got Sylvester Stallone, who seems to be the only one in the movie whos in on the game & knows its all a sci-fi scam. Like The Fifth Element a few years later, Judge Dredd depicts a futuristic megalopolis packed with crowded vertical overgrowth & rampant commerce, where anarchy reigns supreme. Violent block wars are fought by lawless citizens with machine guns, & Judge Dredd is one of the citys heavily armed policemen, given free rein to judge & execute the perpetrators of violence. But Dredd himself is subjected to judgement & swift justice when his own gun is identified in the murder of a prominent TV reporter, forcing him to do whatever he can to clear his name. Diane Lane plays his partner in crime-fighting & romance, & Rob Schneider provides juvenile comic relief as Dredds streetwise sidekick. Impressive special effects are on vivid display, & the movies fun for what its worth. Lower your expectations & you just might enjoy it.

Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone, usually known as simply Sylvester Stallone, is an American film actor, director, producer & screenwriter. He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rambo & Rocky series, in both of which he played a largely monosyllabic hero. Stallone was born in New York City & attended high school in Silver Spring, Maryland, at Montgomery Blair High School. He studied drama at the University of Miami, after which he returned to New York & appeared in a few small Off-Broadway plays. His first film roles were very small, including a pornographic film & he did not break through until he starred in Rocky, a film that he wrote & sold with the rider that he would be the lead. Stallone had two Academy Award nominations for Rocky. However, his attempts to expand his range floundered & he was forced to return to the Rocky franchise a number of times to pay for the flops. He tried his hand at directing as well as writing with Rocky II, III & IV & directed & co-wrote the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive. Posters Of Sylvester Stallone

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Danny Cannon is a film & television sreenwriter, director & producer. He began making films at the age of 16 in 1984 & started a youth experimental theater group. By 1987 he was awarded the BBC Young Filmmaker of the Year Award for a 40-minute short called Sometimes. He enrolled at the National Film & Television School in 1988, from which he graduated in 1990. He wrote & directed Strangers & The Young Americans. Based on his work on the later gangster film, producers signed him up to direct the big-budget, but ultimately poorly-received film Judge Dredd. Since then he has also directed Phoenix & I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. Beginning in 2000, he has directed & produced for the various CSI television series. In 2005 he directed Goal!. Danny Cannon at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Judge Dredd

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