So first question to get out of the way: is this movie better than the 90s version with Stallone? Answer: yes, by leaps and bounds. After all, any film is generally improved by the absence of Rob Schneider, who is to comedy what cancer generally is to a healthy human body. Now don't mistake me on this point, I'm not saying Rob Schneider single-handedly ruined Judge Dredd, although he is fully capable of such a feat. The 90s version was simply cheesy in general, which is not bad all by itself, but this is a comparison inevitably and I'm not going to waste time with quibbling. So getting right down to it: Dredd is gritty, brutal and totally unapologetic. It pulls no punches and doesn't shy away from its deservedly harsh subject matter. After all, I would expect law enforcement after a near breakdown of society following a nuclear world war to be pretty brutal. I understand that there's an entire concept of realism vs. reality (where som
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