

It freely traversed from film noir to flat-out wild sci-fi action to nihilistic hard justice, and did so with style and originality rarely seen in the comic medium. With story arcs varying from 2 pages worth of panels to 4 or 5 episodes, and sometimes multi-threaded plots, this violent, political and tough cyberpunk version of Dirty Harry set some pretty high standards for adult comic authorship both in its native UK and in the USA, once the imports started flowing in. Eagle Comics 2000 AD character Judge Dredd was one of the most original, entertaining and intelligently written and interestingly drawn sci-fi comics of recent times. On the flip-side, when the most consistent complaint you can find among IMDb psychofants is "HE TOOK OFF HIS HELMET!", you really have to wonder if the film is quite as bad as so many believe. The film should have been titled "Judge Dredd" - even in the packaging - and the emphasis for the marketing of this film should have been less Stallone, more content. Take a look at the cover of the DVD package: "Stallone: Judge Dredd".

But I would like to think that she would continue being a judge.This film, and its generally poor reception is a good example of what happens when huge marketing mistakes are made. That would have to be in the mind of whomever was telling her story onward. Whatever that would yield for her in her journey as a person, maybe her journey as a judge, I couldn’t say. I think she’s learned that the world is way too messy for her to have a personal investment in being shiny and important and in control. She’s bowing out of a drive that she had to be an A student, to be perfect and to be the one who’s doing it right.

“What that gesture is about at the end, she’s bowing out of her ambition. Is that because she’s well aware of all the things she did that would technically call for her to fail her evaluation or is it because she’s no longer interested in being a judge anyway? Here’s Thirlby’s take: Warning! The rest of this article contains Dredd spoilers.Should we ever actually get this Dredd sequel, what could be next for Anderson? At the very end of the film, Anderson hands her badge over to Dredd.
