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Judge Dredd |
| Published: July 14, 2007, 6:08 pm |
| Tags: science fiction, crime, action, recommended, reviews |
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This 1995 flick, which I watched the other day since it was on the HD On Demand list, is a fun adaptation of a longrunning British comic that works for me mainly because director Danny Cannon keeps each scene to a bare minimum (not the bangs and the booms but the dialog and length) and star Sly Stallone plays Dredd as so straight you’ll need a laser to measure the variance in his spine. Set in the not too distant future after the Earth’s ecology completely collapsed (so it’s a very early Green flick too), the survivors live in huge enclosed megalopolises, tens of millions in each one. Governments collapsed as well and the only rule is provided the Judges, police, prosecutors and (if necessary) executioners in one person, but even this modest system is barely keeping society on the verge of collapse. One member of the ruling council, the top rank of judges, Griffin (German hard guy Jurgen Prochnow) feels that the only way to avert this final collapse is to remove what [ Full article ] |
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