Judge Dredd had a great cast for a drama, but not for an action movie. This cast has some great actors in it. Armand Assante teaming up with Jurgen Prochnow, Diane Ladd, Max Von Sydow, and Sylvestor Stallone, would have made a great mystery drama. However, they were the wrong cast for an action movie.
Judge Dredd is not about drama, it is about action, adventure, vigilante justice, instant death, kill or be killed brutality. It is supposed to be like Mad Max, a story about a post-apocalyptic future where the only Justice comes by dealing death to the villains. Sylvester Stallone in Cobra (1985) was closer to a Judge Dredd movie than this was.
Unfortunately, Judge Dredd focused on the politics of the Hall of Justice, and the drama behind the scenes. It could have been a great drama if it had been a standard police or mystery movie. The cast was great. Unfortunately, the story did not fit what Judge Dredd is all about. Who wants to know the politics of the Hall of Justice? I want to see villains getting blown away, like Karl Urban did in Dredd (2012). That was the real Judge Dredd movie.
Judge Dredd is not about drama, it is about action, adventure, vigilante justice, instant death, kill or be killed brutality. It is supposed to be like Mad Max, a story about a post-apocalyptic future where the only Justice comes by dealing death to the villains. Sylvester Stallone in Cobra (1985) was closer to a Judge Dredd movie than this was.
Unfortunately, Judge Dredd focused on the politics of the Hall of Justice, and the drama behind the scenes. It could have been a great drama if it had been a standard police or mystery movie. The cast was great. Unfortunately, the story did not fit what Judge Dredd is all about. Who wants to know the politics of the Hall of Justice? I want to see villains getting blown away, like Karl Urban did in Dredd (2012). That was the real Judge Dredd movie.