“Judge Dredd” is an over the top comic-book, sci-fi littered with countless clichés. “Judge Dredd” isn’t technically a good movie but it is done a way that it is at least fun to sit through as it is amusing (but for the wrong reasons).

In the future, there is no need for courts, instead we just have judges. They are the judge, the jury and the executioner. Sylvester Stallone (“Rocky”, “Rambo: First Blood Part II”) stars as the most feared judge named Judge Dredd. Dredd is framed for murder by an evil individual. Dredd must escape from ‘Cursed Earth’ and stop the villainous Rico (Amand Assante “Striptease”) from destroying Mega City 1.

Sylvester Stallone is usually quite amusing in his films with his badly tuned voice and this is no exception. Rob Schneider (“The Hot Chick”) is so annoying in this film as the comic relief. He’s not funny in the slightest. Armand Assante is weak as the villain Rico. He’s just too ridiculous and you can’t take him seriously despite the fact he’s trying to intimidate. Most of the cast disappointed me but I must say I enjoyed the performance by Max von Sydow (“Minority Report”, “The Seventh Seal”) as Chief Justice.

The action is standard, the special effects are reasonably good but the jokes are poor. I said this movie is funny but I also said for the wrong reasons, that’s because the movie has a generally goofy nature to it and it just comes off as pretty hilarious, but I don’t really know if that’s a good thing. The movie never decides whether it is a gritty, sci-fi action film or a silly one and instead just chucks both ideas at us simultaneously and the movie is a bit messy because of it. If you’re looking for a stupid action film then you have hit the jackpot but if you’re just an average moviegoer, this is one you’ll want to skip as nothing in it as too impressive.