Judge Dredd (film)

Judge Dredd is a 1995 American science fiction action film directed by Danny Cannon, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Armand Assante, and Max von Sydow. The film is based on the strip of the same name in the British comic 2000 AD. It was a critical and commercial disappointment.

Rico Armand Assante, a former Judge, escapes from prison with the help of Judge Griffin Jrgen Prochnow, and reclaims his Judges uniform and Lawgiver gun as well as a decommissioned combat robot. A news reporter Mitch Ryan critical of Dredd is soon murdered, and Dredd is the chief suspect. Hershey acts as Dredds defense lawyer in a trial before a tribunal of Council Judges including Dredds mentor Chief Justice Fargo Max von Sydow and Griffin. Dredd is found guilty based on DNA evidence that matches the bullets used to kill the reporter to the unique identifiers of Dredds Lawgiver.Shocked by the possibility of Dredd being a murderer, Fargo steps down as Chief Justice, asking as his last request that the Council spare Dredds life. Dredd is sentenced to life imprisonment while Fargo embarks on his long walk, in which a retiring Judge ventures into the Cursed Earth wasteland to bring law to the lawless. Griffin, who freed Rico to frame Dredd for the murder, becomes Chief Justice and instructs Rico to sow chaos throughout the city. ........

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