Judge Dredd (1995)
Actors:
Ashley Artus (actor),
Armand Assante (actor),
Ewan Bailey (actor),
Sam Barriscale (actor),
John Blakey (actor),
Alan Bond (actor),
Ewen Bremner (actor),
Frazer Brown (actor),
Charlie Condou (actor),
Lex Daniel (actor),
Ian Dury (actor),
Brendan Fleming (actor),
Ryan Gage (actor),
Balthazar Getty (actor),
Christopher Adamson (actor),
Plot: In the year 2139, the Earth has changed into a virtually uninhabitable place called the Cursed Earth. All of the Earth's population have crowded into the cities across the planet, now known as Mega-Cities. The crimes in these Mega-Cities became so violent and so powerful, that the regular justice system was powerless to contain, then it collapsed completely. However, a new justice system came from the ashes, there were three justice systems in one (police, jury and executioner), they were called Judges. In Mega-City One (formerly, New York City), there was a Judge, named Joseph Dredd, who was the toughest and most stringent Judge in history. One day, he was charged with murder, and was tried and sentenced to life in prison because of it. Then Dredd found out that it was in fact a person who shares his DNA: renegade Judge Rico. Now Dredd has to find out what Rico is planning to do, and to discover about his past.
Keywords: 2000-a.d.-comics, 22nd-century, academy, action-hero, airplane-crash, ambush, anti-hero, apocalypse, arm-ripped-off, assassination
Genres:
Action,
Crime,
Sci-Fi,
Thriller,
Taglines: One man is Judge, Jury, AND Executioner. In the future, one man is the law.
Quotes:
Herman Ferguson: I'm free, you're toast!::Judge Dredd: Actually, you're toast. I forgot to mention it: your new friends, they're cannibals.
Judge Dredd: The legendary Angel family. Cursed Earth pirates, murderers, scavengers, and of course scumbags!
Judge Dredd: [to Mean Machine, mentioning his artificial right forearm with included blade] Does that come with a fork, handsome?
Judge Hershey: [as her dead partner is being taken away] Dammit! I was supposed to be watching out for him.::Judge Dredd: Don't blame yourself, Hershey, he made the mistake, not you.::Judge Hershey: [exasperated] Wouldn't it feel good to have an emotion once in a while, huh?::Judge Dredd: Emotions... there ought to be a law against them.
Judge Dredd: I am the law!
[on the flight to Aspen]::Fergee: What are you doing here?::Judge Dredd: I was convicted of a crime. Wrongly convicted.::Fergee: [laughs] Really? That's kinda weird! What are the odds? Two wrongly convicted guys sitting right next to each other?::Judge Dredd: You received the sentence the law required.::Fergee: Five years, just for saving my own ass? That was a mistake!::Judge Dredd: The law doesn't... make mistakes.::Fergee: Really? Then how do you explain what happened to you? You can't, can you? Great. Mr. "I am the law" can't. So maybe this is some kind of typo. Maybe it's a glitch. Or maybe it's poetic justice.
Rico: You want fear? I'm the fear. You want chaos? I'm the chaos. You want a new beginning?::[knocks a bust statue off it's plinth]::Rico: I am the new beginning!
Warden Miller: [after giving Rico a package, which has is Badge and a picture of Hammond in it] So tell me, Rico, what is the meaning of life?::Rico: [the package converts into a gun and Rico points it at the Warden's throat] It ends.::[he shoots the Warden in the throat]
[Fergee has just arrived in Heavenly Haven, where a riot is taking place]::Herman Ferguson: [shrugs] It's better than prison.
Judge Dredd: [Dredd has caught Fergee trying to escape inside a servo-droid and is judging him for damaging public property] And you haven't even been out of jail for 24 hours. He's habitual, Hershey. Automatic 5 year sentence. How do you plead?::Fergee: Not guilty?::Judge Dredd: I knew you'd say that.::Fergee: 5 years? No! No! I had no choice! They were killing each other in there!::Judge Dredd: You could have gone out the window.::Fergee: 40 floors? It would have been suicide!::Judge Dredd: Maybe, but it's legal.