JUDGE DREDD
A film review by Sue Roberts
Copyright 1995 Sue Roberts
Directed by Danny Cannon
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane,
Rob Schneider.
If only Fritz Lang could see this picture. He would be thrilled with the modern METROPOLIS. Exaggerated angles, individual lines of dialog, (one could almost see the speech bubbles) and a dangerous pace all conspire to make this the first film to bring the art form of comic illustration to the screen. One could feel every line of the drawings leaping to life.
Sly Stallone obviously enjoyed working on this one and indulged in some serious timing on the humour. It says a lot for his performance that he competed with the scale of production design and won.
Cannon certainly kept the pages turning! I waited ninety minutes for them to get to the quiet bit and it never came. At the culmination I had only one question: "Er, excuse me, is that IT!!! Well do, you think we could just run the sequel NOW?"
Sue Roberts sroberts@griffin.compulink.co.uk
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