IT is the year 2139 – bear with me, this is a Land Rover story. An unspecified calamity has turned the world into a dystopian, post-apocalyptic and barely habitable wasteland. Most of those who survived the disaster that brought humankind close to annihilation are living in vast, crime-infested Mega-Cities. Law and order are the responsibility of a special force of officers who combine the roles of policeman, judge, jury and executioner. One of them is known as Judge Dredd, and in the 1995 film of the same name he is played by Sylvester Stallone.
You might remember the movie, Judge Dredd, which was based on the 2000AD comic character. It’s probably a good thing that we aren’t here today to be film critics because, if the truth be known, the 1995 Judge Dredd movie (there was another one in 2012 which was rather better received) has had quite a bashing over the years.
To be honest, I rather enjoyed it when it came out and I can even
