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Rated: R; Genre: Action/Adventure; With: Armand Assante and Sylvester Stallone
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By Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly
Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

As a futuristic dystopian executioner given to bellowing, ''I am the law!'' every five minutes, Sylvester Stallone swaggers through the rest of his lines in Judge Dredd as if they were Schwarzenegger-style bon mots. But there's nary a true riposte in this entire half-slapstick, half-supergrisly comic-book adaptation, which has the overpumped actor mostly obscured by cheesy costumes and a helmet that leaves only his nerve-damaged upper lip showing. At least in theaters there was plenty of exploding scenery for you to watch. But with the original wide-screen images chopped almost in half to fit television screens, only talking heads remain, and your VCR thus visits crippling injustices on a movie that's a weak case to begin with.


Posted Dec 15, 1995
 

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