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Reviews
Judge Dredd (1995)
I am the law and I sentence this film to 25 years hard labour
Frankly I was appalled by this film. How could they? What possessed them? Why, at some point during production, or even upon reading the script, didn't somebody put a stop to this disaster. Anybody that had ever read the original comics couldn't fail to realise that they were annihilating this superb imaginative idea with one poorly written, hopelessly crafted turkey. Instead of creating an original interpretation of one of the most popular underground works of imaginative fiction in the past 3 decades, the production team decided to pull various plots at random from the comics (the angel family), take these beautifully crafted plots and subject them to 20 minutes of poorly written film time and then destroy them forever. In the hands of somebody like Tim Burton we could potentially have had years of cinematic viewing pleasure as a veritable gold mine of material is available for a series of films. After that shambles though (and I don't even blame Sylvester Stallone)(much) there is no way. The Judge Dredd series as conceptualised in 2000AD and its own franchise publications is a triumph of dark humour and satirical grittiness. The film was a commercial copout that shows a complete lack of respect for the subject matter and the viewing public as a whole. I truly believe that everyone with a stake in the production of this gut churning rot deserves to rot in an ISO CUBE for at least 25 years.
The Actors (2003)
You'll enjoy it almost as much as the cast obviously did
Right, for a start, I liked it. It was funny, It was farcical; Michael Caine and Dylan Moran threw themselves into their roles with such obvious glee, that I found it impossible not to be swayed by this film despite its many obvious flaws. The musical score just didn't seem appropriate; a number of the scenes appeared irrelevant and a little clunky; it just is not perfectly crafted and does appear cobbled together at times. But, and its a big but, its just funny. It just is - Michael Caine is wonderful as the neverhasbeen, entirely self absorbed O'Malley. While Moran handles his (definately more challenging) role with an almost nonchalent ease - a superb actor and one to watch in the future me thinks. In summary, and despite its flaws, if you don't laugh at this nice little film then your a bigger cynic than me - and you have my pity!